22 U.S.C. § 283ff — Subscription of stock

(a) Secretary of the Treasury as subscribing authority: The Secretary of the Treasury may subscribe, on behalf of the United States, to 5,100 shares of the Corporation's capital stock. But this only works to the extent Congress has already provided the money in advance through appropriations laws. (b) Authorization of appropriations: Congress may appropriate, with no fiscal-year time limit, up to $51,000,000 so the Secretary of the Treasury can pay for the United States' subscription to those shares. (c) Disposition of dividends: Any dividend payment the Corporation makes to the United States gets deposited into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt.