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 92 STAT. 504 Appropriation authorization.

PUBLIC LAW 95-3i51—AUG. 20, 1978 rowers, by foundations, trust or charitable funds, by public bodies, and by the United States. Beginning with the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, the United States shall purchase class A stock and for that fiscal year there are authorized to be appropriated $100,000,000 for such purposes, and there are authorized to be appropriated for the next four succeeding fiscal years an amount not to exceed $200,000,000 in the aggregate. Any amounts so authorized but not appropriated or not utilized to purchase such stock of the Bank in any such fiscal year is authorized to be appropriated or reappropriated and so used in subsequent fiscal years. (b) The capital stock of the Bank shall include class A, class B, and class C stock and such other classes with such rights, powers, privileges, and preferences of the separate classes as may be specified, not inconsistent with law, in the bylaws of the Bank. Class A preferred stock held by the United States shall be a preferred stock with first preference with respect to assets and dividends over all other classes of stock issued by the Bank. So lon^ as any class A stock is outstanding, the Bank shall not pay any dividend on any other class of stock at a rate greater than the statutory dividend payable on the class A stock. Class B and class C stock shall be common stock with voting rights as provided for herein and shall be issued only to eligible borrowers and organizations controlled by such borrowers or organizations eligible to borrow, and shall be transferable only on the books of the Bank and then only to another eligible borrower. No holder of voting stock of the Bank shall be entitled to more than one vote regardless of the number of shares of stock of other classes held, except as provided in subsection (g) of this section. (c) Class A stock with a par value of $100 per share shall be issued by the Bank to the Secretary of the Treasury on behalf of the United States in exchange for capital furnished pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. The holder of class A stock shall be entitled to dividends at a rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury taking into consideration the average market yield, during the month preceding the close of each fiscal year, on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States of comparable maturity: Provided, That until October 1, 1990, such dividends shall not exceed 25 per centum of gross revenues for the year less necessary operating expenses, including a reserve for possible losses. Such dividends shall be payable annually into miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury and shall be cumulative. Any such dividend payment may be deferred by the Board of Directors with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, but any dividend payment so deferred shall bear interest at the same rate as the rate at which dividends accumulate on the class A stock. Without the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Bank shall not pay any dividend or distribution on, or make any redemption or repurchase of, any other class of stock at any time when the cumulative dividends on the class A stock shall not have been paid in full (together with any unpaid interest thereon). Upon any liquidation or dissolution of the Bank, the holder of class A stock shall be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Bank available for distribution to its stockholders, prior to any payment to the holders of any other class of stock of the Bank, an amount not less than the aggregate par value of all class A stock outstanding, plus all accrued and unpaid dividends accrued thereon to and including the date of payment (together with all unpaid interest thereon). The class A stock shall be redeemed and retired as soon as practicable consistent with the purposes of this Act (such redemption to be at a price equal to the

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