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FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD

94

WASHINGTON
address official correspondence to
the federal reserve board

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X-4507
January 21, 1926.
SUBJECT: Letters to Committee on Banking and. Currency
re legislation.
Dear Sir:
The Federal Reserve Board has recently addressed
three letters to the Chairman of the Committee on Banking
and Currency of the House of Representatives, copies of which
are enclosed for your information',^ as follows:
(1)
(2)

(3)

Expressing the Board's views on and recommending certain amendments to H, 2. 2, the socalled McFadden B i l l ;
Recommending an amendment to Section 13 of the
Federal Reserve Act extending the maximum
maturity of advances "by Federal reserve banks
to member banks on their promissory notes when
such notes are secured by eligible paper; and
Recommending the enactment of legislation to
prohibit the use of the words "Federal",
"Reserve" and "United States" by banking ass o c i a t i o n s , etc.
Very truly yours,

Waiter L. Eddy,
Secretary.
(Enclosures)
TO CHAIRISH AM) GOVERNORS OF ALL P* R. 3ANXS