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FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD
WASHINGTON
ADDRESS OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE TO
THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD

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July 28, 1927.

CONFID:BNTI.AL
SUBJECT:

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X-4912

Code word to be used by Federal Reserve Bank of New York
in advices re Investments in Sterling Bills.

Dear Sir:
In order to reduce the length of telegrams between the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and other Federal reserve banks in connection with participation in the Bank of England account, it has been
sugge.ted that an additional code word be supplied from the Federal
Reserve Telegraph Code,
The Board has approved this suggestion, an.d effective at once,
the. following code word will be used between the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York and other Federal reserve banks in connection with these transactions:
KLI CKED: Please make following entries for investment in Sterling bills made for our account
by the Bank of England: Debit "Investments
through foreign banks" $
with
corresponding credit to "Due from foreign
banks-:Bank of England". In addition to daily
accrual our telegram
we credit you
your
through sett~ement today $
share earnings u:p to and including today.
We will credit you tomorrow and daily until
further notice $
your share of
daily accrual.
This code word should be inserted in the Federal Reserve
Telegraph Code following the supplemental code word 11 XLIC~ 1 at the
bottom of page 131.
There are enclosed herewith a sufficient number of extra
copies of thio letter to enable you to insert this code word in all
of the code books in the possession of your bank.
Very truly yours,

J. C. ·Noell,
Assistant Secretary.

To Governors of all F. R. Banks.