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FEDERAL

R E S £ B V£

BOARD

STATEMENT FOR THE PRESS*,

X-l?47

For immediate r e l e a s e *

Announcement was made today t h a t under arrangements made
between the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board, standard s i l v e r
d o l l a r s t h a t ' a r e f r e e i n the Treasury w i l l u n t i l f u r t h e r n o t i c e be
d e l i v e r e d a g a i n s t other forms of money to the' Division of Foreign
Exchange of the Federal Reserve Board, which w i l l , through the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, cooperating with the branches
of American banks i n the O r i e n t , employ such d o l l a r s in r e g u l a t i n g
our exchanges with s i l v e r standard c o u n t r i e s .
This arrangement does not, of course, a f f e c t the redemption
of o u t s t a n d i n g s i l v e r c e r t i f i c a t e s i n standard s i l v e r d o l l a r s .




December 6, 1919 -