SECTION 147. That for the purpose of creating and establishing the

organization provided for in this Act and putting the same into

operation there is hereby appropriated the sum of three hundred

thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, as a loan to

the National Land Credit Bank, at the rate of 3 per centum per annum

until paid: _Provided, however_, That this loan shall not extend beyond

the period of ten years.