FeEperAL RESERVE AcT 
reserve falls below thirty-two and one-half per centum, a tax at the rate increasingly of 
not less than one and one-half per centum per annum upon each two and one-half per 
centum or fraction thereof that such reserve falls below thirty-two and one-half per 
centum. The tax shall be paid by the reserve bank, but the reserve bank shall add an 
amount equal to said tax to the rates of interest and discount fixed by the Federal 
Reserve Board. 
(d) To supervise and regulate through the bureau under the charge of the Comp- 
troller of the Currency the issue and retirement of Federal reserve notes, and to pre- 
scribe rules and regulations under which such notes may be delivered by the Comp- 
troller to the Federal reserve agents applying therefor. 
(e) To add to the number of cities classified as reserve and central reserve cities 
under existing law in which national banking associations are subject to the reserve 
requirements set forth in section twenty of this Act; or to reclassify existing reserve 
and central reserve cities or to terminate their designation as such. 
(f) To suspend or remove any officer or director of any Federal reserve bank, the 
cause of such removal to be forthwith communicated in writing by the Federal Reserve 
Board to the removed officer or director and to said bank. 
(g) To require the writing off of doubtful or worthless assets upon the books and 
balance sheets of Federal reserve banks. 
(h) To suspend, for the violation of any of the provisions of this Act, the operations 
of any Federal reserve bank, to take possession thereof, administer the same during the 
period of suspension, and, when deemed advisable, to liquidate or reorganize such bank. 
(i) To require bonds of Federal reserve agents, to make regulations for the safe- 
guarding of all collateral, bonds, Federal reserve notes, money or property of any kind 
deposited in the hands of such agents, and said board shall perform the duties, functions, 
or services specified in this Act, and make all rules and regulations necessary to enable 
said board effectively to perform the same. 
(j) To exercise general supervision over said Federal reserve banks. 
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(k) To grant by special permit to national banks applying therefor, when not in 
contravention of State or local law, the right to act as trustee, executor, administrator, 
registrar of stocks and bonds, guardian of estates, assignee, receiver, committee of 
estates of lunatics, or in any other fiduciary capacity in which State banks, trust com- 
panies, or other corporations which come into competition with national banks are per- 
mitted to act under the laws of the State in which the national bank is located. 
Whenever the laws of such State authorize or permit the exercise of any or all of the 
foregoing powers by State banks, trust companies, or other corporations which com- 
Pete with national banks, the granting to and the exercise of such powers by national 
banks shall not be deemed to be in contravention of State or local law within the mean- 
ng of this Act. 
National banks exercising any or all of the powers enumerated in this subsection 
shall segregate all assets held in any fiduciary capacity from the general assets of the 
bank and shall keep a separate set of books and records showing in proper detail all 
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