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F E D E R A L R E ·s E R V E B 0 A R D

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STATEMENT FOR THE PRESS

For immediate release
June 30, 1919.

'l;he Federal Reserve Board has been advised through the

Secreta.17 of the Treasury that the President ha.s signed a procl.a.ma.tion
revoking, subJect to certain exceptions, certain :prior procla.u.ations
and brdera including the e.xeeutive order of Jan\Ja.r;y

26,

191~ relating

to the embargo on coih' b\tllio.h and. c'lirrency and. to the restrictions on
transactions in foreign exchange.

Under this action and the action

thereunder which has been ta.ken by the Federal Reserve Board with the
approval of t be Secretary of the Treasury all restrictions have been
removed from the export of coin, bullion and currency and from transactions in foreign exchange e.xcept with or for persons in that part of
Russia now under control of the so-called Bolshevik Government, ino.luding
also the export and

~ort

of ruble notes.

Applications and licenses,

beginning July 1 1 1919, will not be required for the export of coin,
bullion or currency e.xcept as above stated.

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Neither the procl.ama.tion

nor the action of the Federal Reserve Board in connection therewith,
should be construed so as to authorize remittances to enemy territory
which are permittee\. as heretofore, only under special or general license
of the War Trade Board.