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APPENDIX
their branches which may have been in lawful operation
by any bank at the date of the approval of the Act.
(c) A national banking association may, after the date
of the approval of this Act, establish and operate new
ranches within the limits of the city, town, or village in
which said association is situated if such establishment
ind operation are at the time permitted to State banks
by the law of the State in question.
(d) No branch shall be established after the date of the
Approval of this Act within the limits of any city, town,
IT village of which the population by the last decennial
lensus was less than twenty-five thousand. No more
than one such branch may be thus established where the
population, so determined, of such municipal unit does
10% exceed fifty thousand; and not more than two such
branches where the population docs not exceed one
hundred thousand. In any such municipal unit where
the population exceeds one hundred thousand the deter-
ination of the number of branches shall be within the
liscretion of the Comptroller of the Currency.
(¢) No branch of any national banking association shall
be established or moved from one location to another
without first obtaining the consent and approval of the
Comptroller of the Currency.
(f) The term “branch” as used in this section shall be
held to include any branch bank, branch office, branch
agency, additional office, or any branch place of business
located in any State or Territory of the United States or in
the District of Columbia at which deposits are received,
or checks paid, or money lent.
(g) This section shall not be construed to amend or
repeal section 25 of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended,
authorizing the establishment. by national banking asso-
“lations of branches in foreign countries, or dependencies,
or insular possessions of the United States.
(h) The words “State bank,” “State banks,” “bank,”
or “banks,” as used in this section, shall be held to include
trust companies, savings banks, or other such corporations
or institutions carrying on the banking business under
the authority of State laws.
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