posted on Apr, 10 2012 @ 08:00 AM
reply to post by vonholland
Any audit should include who owns the Fed. Yes there is one class of stock (voting) held by member banks, the only one they ever talk about. However
when the Fed was created there was a PUBLIC stock offering with limits as to how many shares any non bank entity could hold in EACH of the individual
12 Fed banks. I recall this was to be non voting stock and if not fully subscribed the US Treasury was obligated to buy the remaining shares. They
Fed did not notify the Treasury that it was fully subscribed until 1941.
It is all spelled out in the US Code Title 12 Chapter 3, subchapter 6, but read an annotated copy at your courthouse. as it includes portions non
longer in effect, like the Treasury obligation.
§ 281. Capital
§ 282. Subscription to capital stock by national banking association
§ 283.
Public subscription to capital stock
§ 284. Omitted
§ 285. Nonvoting stock
§ 286. Transfers of stock; rules and regulations
§ 287. Value of shares of stock; increase and decrease of stock; member banks as shareholders; surrender of shares
§ 288. Cancellation of stock held by member bank on insolvency or discontinuance of banking operations for sixty days; repayment of cash-paid
subscriptions
§ 289. Dividends and surplus funds of reserve banks; transfer for fiscal year 2000
§ 290. Use of earnings transferred to the Treasury
No individual, copartnership, or corporation other than a member bank of its district shall be permitted to subscribe for or to hold at any time more
than $25,000 par value of stock in any Federal reserve bank. Such stock shall be known as public stock and may be transferred on the books of the
Federal reserve bank by the chairman of the board of directors of such bank
edit on 10-4-2012 by oghamxx because: (no reason given)
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