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FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
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OF NEW YORK

Circular No. 2085, June 21, 1940
Reference to Circulars Nos. 2044, 2046, 2050, 2053, 2056,
2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2069,
2070, 2071, 2073, 2074, 2078, 2080, 2081, 2082 and 2083

Executive Order No. 8389, April 10, 1940, as Amended, and Regulations
Issued Pursuant Thereto, Relating to Transactions
in Foreign Exchange, Etc.
To all Banking Institutions, and Others Concerned,
in the Second Federal Reserve District:

For your information we quote below the text of a telegram received today from the
Treasury Department:
The following general license has been issued today by the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant
to Executive Order No. 8389 of April 10, 1940, as amended, and the Regulations issued thereunder.
Code of Federal Regulations
Title 31—Money and Finance: Treasury
Chapter I—Monetary Offices, Department of the Treasury
Part 151
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

General License No. 21 under Executive Order No. 8389, April 10, 1940, as
amended, and Regulations issued pursuant thereto, relating to transactions in foreign exchange, etc.*
A general license is hereby granted authorizing banking institutions within the United
States to make all payments, transfers and withdrawals from accounts in the name of the
Netherlands Trading Society East, London.
Banking institutions within the United States making such payments, transfers or
withdrawals shall file promptly with the appropriate Federal Reserve bank weekly reports
showing the details of the transactions during such period.
D. W. BELL,

June 21, 1940.

Acting Secretary of the Treasury.

*Part 151:—Sec. 5(b), 40 Stat. 415 and 966; Sec. 2, 48 Stat. 1; Public Resolution No. 69, 76th Congress; 12 U. S. C. 95a; Ex. Order 6560, Jan. 15, 1934; Ex. Order 8389, April 10, 1940; Ex. Order 8405,
May 10, 1940; Ex. Order 8446, June 17, 1940; Regulations, April 10, 1940, as amended May 10, 1940 and
June 17, 1940.

Additional copies of this circular will be furnished upon request.




GEORGE L. HARRISON,

President.