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INTERPRETATION CP BANKING ACT OF 1933
(Copies to be sent to all Federal reserve tanks)

May 22, 1934.

Your wire asking QUOTE is a national bank owning all shares of a
securities corporation and carrying same as a book asset required
to divorce itself from corporation under section twenty of banking act if corporation is doing nothing except liquidating its
assets.

UNQUOTE.

Board is of opinion that section twenty will

not require divorcement of securities company which shall have
been placed in formal liquidation and which shall transact no
business except such as may be incidental to liquidation of its
affairs.




(Signed) Chester Morrill
Chester Morrill, Secretary,
Federal Reserve Board.