Names. Addresses. Number of Shares. (D) Since the last report to the Federal Trade Commission the articles of or certificate of incorporation, articles of association and by-laws have been amended or changed as follows: (E) The following briefly describes the methods and plans under which our business is done and states our relations with other associations, corporations and individuals, with such other information as we deem should be in the export files of the Federal Trade Commission: I. Notes 1. The information required by this report is to be furnished to the Federal Trade Commission under "An Act to promote export trade, and for other purposes," approved April 10, 1918, (the Export Trade Act), which provides in section 5 thereof as follows: Sec. 5. That every association now engaged solely in export trade, within sixty days after the passage of this Act, and every association entered into hereafter which engages solely in export trade, within thirty days after its creation, shall file with the Federal Trade Commission a verified written statement setting forth the location of its offices or places of business and the names and addresses of all its officers and of all its stockholders or members, and if a corporation, a copy of its certificate or articles of incorporation and by-laws, and if unincorporated, a copy of its articles or contract of association, and on the first day of January of each year thereafter it shall make a like statement of the location of its offices or places of business and the names and addresses of all its officers and of all its stockholders or members and of all amendments to and changes in its articles or certificate of incorporation or in its articles or contract of association. It shall also furnish to the commission such information as the commission may require as to its organization, business, conduct, practices, management and relation to other associations, corporations, partnerships and individuals. Any association which shall fail so to do shall not have the benefit of the provisions of section two and section three of this Act, and it shall also forfeit to the United States the sum of $100 for each and every day of the continuance of such failure, which forfeiture shall be payable into the Treasury of the United States, and shall be recoverable in a civil suit in the name of the United States brought in the district where the association has its principal office, or in any district in which it shall do business. It shall be the duty of the various district attorneys, under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, to prosecute for the recovery of the forfeiture. The costs and expenses of such prosecution shall be paid out of the appropriation for the expenses of the courts of the United States. *** 2. The word "association" wherever used in the "export trade act" or in this report means "any corporation or combination, by contract or otherwise, of two or more persons, partnerships or corporations." EXHIBIT XIII. APPLICATION FOR INCORPORATION UNDER EDGE ACT.1 Application for Approval and Reservation of Title of a Corporation Proposed to be Organized under the Terms of Section 25(a) of the Federal Reserve Act. 1 Federal Reserve Board Form 150. 19....... To the FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD, Sirs: Washington, D. C. We, the undersigned, prospective shareholders, being natural persons and of lawful age, intend, with others, to organize a corporation under the terms of Section 25 (a) of the Federal Reserve Act under the title of the home office to be located at We request that this title be approved by the Federal Reserve Board and reserved for a period of thirty days, and that all correspondence with reference to this application be addressed to Very truly yours, EXHIBIT XIV. ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION UNDER EDGE act.1 Banking Corporations Authorized to do Foreign Banking Business Under Section 25(a) of the Federal Reserve Act. ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION. For the purpose of organizing a corporation to carry on the business of international or foreign banking or other international 1Federal Reserve Board Form 151. or foreign financial operations, under Section 25(a) of the Federal Reserve Act, the undersigned subscribers for the stock of the corporation hereinafter named do enter into the following articles of association: First: The title of this corporation shall be 66 Second: This corporation is being organized for the purpose of engaging in the business of international or foreign banking or other international or foreign financial operations, or in banking or other financial operations in a dependency or insular possession of the United States, either directly or through the agency, ownership or control of local institutions in foreign countries or in such dependencies or insular possessions, and for the purpose of acting, when required by the Secretary of the Treasury, as fiscal agent of the United States. Third: The operations of this corporation shall be carried on in the following place or places: Fourth: The home office of this corporation shall be located in the United States, at on the Fifth: The Board of Directors shall consist of members. The first meeting of the stockholders for the election of directors shall be at or at such other place and time as a majority of the undersigned stockholders may direct. Sixth: The regular annual meeting of the stockholders for the election of directors shall be held each year in the United States, at the home office of the corporation, upon the date fixed by the directors in the by-laws of the corporation, and all elections shall be held according to such regulations as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors not inconsistent with the provisions of Section 25(a) of the Federal Reserve Act, and of these articles. Seventh: The capital stock of this corporation shall be The capital stock may, with the approval of the Federal Reserve Board, be increased at any time by a vote of two-thirds of the stockholders, or by unanimous consent in writing of the stockholders without a meeting and without a formal vote, according to the provisions of the aforesaid Act of Congress. Eighth: The Board of Directors, all of whom shall be citizens of the United States, and a majority of whom shall be a quorum to do business, shall have power to appoint such officers and em-, ployees as it may deem necessary to transact the business of the corporation, to fix salaries to be paid to them, to continue them in office, or to dismiss them whenever the interests of the corporation may demand, and to appoint others to fill their places. The directors shall have power to define the authority and the duties of the officers and employees of the corporation, to require bonds from them, and to fix the penalty thereof; to regulate the manner in which elections of directors shall be held, and to appoint judges of the election; to make all by-laws that it may be proper for them to make, not inconsistent with law and with the regulations of the Federal Reserve Board, for the general regulation of the business of the corporation and the management of its affairs, and generally to do and perform all acts that it may be legal for the Board of Directors to do and perform under the aforesaid Act of Congress. Ninth: A majority of the shares of the capital stock of this corporation shall at all times he held and owned by citizens of the United States, by corporations the controlling interest in which is owned by citizens of the United States, chartered under the laws of the United States, or of a State of the United States, or by firms or companies the controlling interest in which is owned by citizens of the United States, and provision shall be made in the by-laws for the enforcement of this requirement. Tenth: This corporation shall continue for a period of twenty years from the date of the execution of its organization certificate, unless sooner dissolved by an act of its stockholders owning at least two-thirds of its stock, or by an Act of Congress, or unless its franchise becomes forfeited by some violation of law; but it may at any time within two years next previous to the date of |