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FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF DALLAS
F IS C A L A G E N T O F T H E U N IT E D S T A T E S

Dallas, Texas, April 3, 1951

CLOSING OF SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS FOR THE
2% % TREASURY BONDS, INVESTMENT SERIES B-1975-80

To All Banking Institutions, and Others Concerned,
in the Eleventh Federal Reserve District-:
There is quoted below a press statement issued today by Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder:
“ Secretary of the Treasury Snyder announced today that the subscription
books for the current offering of 2% percent Treasury Bonds, Investment Series
B-1975-80, in exchange for the 2*4 percent Treasury Bonds of June 15 and Decem­
ber 15, 1967-72, will close at midnight Friday, April 6, 1951.
“ Subscriptions addressed to a Federal Reserve Bank or Branch or to the
Treasury Department, and placed in the mail before midnight of April 6 will be
considered as having been entered before the close of the subscription books.
“ Announcement of the total amount of subscriptions and their division
among the several Federal Reserve Districts will be made later. The Secretary
said that subscriptions received and tabulated by Federal Reserve Banks as of
Monday, April 2, (including about $5,365,000,000 for Federal Reserve and Treas­
ury investment account) exceed $11,000,000,000. This figure, of course, does
not include subscriptions in the mails.”
Subscriptions addressed to this bank or appropriate branch and placed in the mail
before midnight Friday, April 6, will be considered as timely subscriptions.
Yours very truly,
R. R. GILBERT
President

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