12 USC § 23 - Acknowledgment and filing of certificate

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title: "12 USC § 23 - Acknowledgment and filing of certificate"
title_number: 12
title_name: "BANKS AND BANKING"
section_number: "23"
section_name: "Acknowledgment and filing of certificate"
chapter_number: 2
chapter_name: "NATIONAL BANKS"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL PROVISIONS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(R.S. § 5135.)"
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# § 23. Acknowledgment and filing of certificate

The organization certificate shall be acknowledged before a judge of some court of record, or notary public; and shall be, together with the acknowledgment thereof, authenticated by the seal of such court, or notary, transmitted to the Comptroller of the Currency, who shall record and carefully preserve the same in his office.

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**Source Credit**: (R.S. § 5135.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 5135 derived from , , which was the National Bank Act. See .

## Executive Documents

### Exception as to Transfer of Functions

Functions vested by any provision of law in Comptroller of the Currency, referred to in this section, not included in transfer of functions to Secretary of the Treasury, see note set out under .