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FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD
WASHINGTON
address official correspondence t o
the federal reserve board

X-7674
November 9, 1933

SUBJECT:

Report of Committee on Branch
Group and Chain Banking.

Dear Sir:
There i s inclosed, for your information, a
copy of a l e t t e r which i s "being sent to the Chairman
of the Governors' Conference today with regard to the
recommendation that the System Committee on Branch,
Group and Chain Banking "be reconstituted for the purpose of bringing up to date the report previously
submitted by i t .
Very truly yours,

XIJZaj
Chester Morrill
Secretary.
Inclosure.
TO GOVERNORS OF ALL F. R. BASKS EXCEPT SAN FRANCISCO.




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COPY

X-7674-a

November 9, 1933.

Mr. John U. Calkins,
Chairman, Governors' Conference,
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco,
San Francisco, California.
Bear Governor Calkins:
At the meeting of the Governors' Conference with the Federal Reserve
Board on October 12, 1933, you reported that the Conference had voted to
recommend to the Federal Reserve Board the r e c o n s t i t u t i n g of the Committee
on Branch, Group and Chain Banking, for the purpose of amending the report
previously submitted by the Committee in the l i g h t of events which have transpired since the report was prepared.
The Federal Reserve Board has given careful consideration to the
recommendation of the Conference, and has decided that i t should be held i n
abeyance, perhaps u n t i l a f t e r the present emergency i s passed.

Further con-

sideration w i l l be given to the matter when the Board i s i n a p o s i t i o n , i n
the l i g h t of l a t e r circumstances, to determine whether further r e v i s i o n o f ,
and addition t o , the Committee report would be desirable.
A copy of t h i s l e t t e r i s being forwarded to the governors of a l l
other Federal reserve banks.




Very truly yours,

(Signed) Chester Morrill,
Secretary.