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WASHINGTON
January 28, 195k #

The National Archives publishes a guide to i t s collections* The
19ii8 guide on Page I486 l i s t s as their No. 158 records of the Capital Issue
Committee* This committee was actiTe from January 1918 to August 30* 1919*
I t included three members of the Federal Reserve Board and two former members*

I t s function was to pass on the issuing of securities l e s t capital be

drained unnecessarily from possible #ar bond purchase* The National Archives
contains "all known records11 of two Capital Issues Committees* There are
said to be 211 feet of these records*