Chapter 147. Regulating corporations doing a banking business in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 147.— An Act Regulating corporations doing a banking business in the District of Columbia. April 26, 1922.[[S. 3170](/us/bill/67/s/3170).][[Public, No. 200](/us/pl/67/200).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Banking corporations not permitted to do business, etc., in, without consent of Comptroller of the Currency. That no corporation that is not now engaged in the business of banking in the District of Columbia shall, after the passage of this Act, be permitted to enter upon said business in the said District, nor shall any corporation now or hereafter engaged in the business of banking be permitted to establish branch banks in said District, until after it shall have secured the approval and consent of the Comptroller of the Currency;
Punishment for violations.and each one of the officers of such corporation so offending shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Approved, April 26, 1922.