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

Dallas, Texas, October 7,1943

CLOSING OF SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS
CURRENT CASH AND EXCHANGE OFFERINGS

To All Banking Institutions, and Others Concerned,
in the Eleventh Federal Reserve District:

Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau announces that the subscription
books for the receipt of cash subscriptions to the current offering of 2 per­
cent Treasury Bonds of 1951-53 and of % percent Treasury Certificates of
Indebtedness of Series F-1944 will close at the close of business Friday,
October 8. Cash subscriptions for these issues are restricted to commercial
banks for their own account.
The Secretary also announced that the subscription books for the receipt
of exchange subscriptions to the current offering of % percent Treasury
Certificates of Indebtedness of Series F-1944, in payment of which Treas­
ury Certificates of Indebtedness of Series D-1943, maturing November 1,
1943, are tendered, will close at the close of business Friday, October 8.
With respect to the 2V2 percent Treasury Bonds of 1964-69 and the 2 per­
cent Treasury Bonds of 1951-53 open for exchange subscriptions in pay­
ment of which Treasury Bonds of 1943-45 called for redemption on October
15 are tendered, the subscription books will close at the close of business
Friday, October 8, except for the receipt of subscriptions from holders of
$25,000 or less of the called bonds. The subscription books will close at the
close of business Monday, October 11, for the receipt of exchange subscrip­
tions of the latter class.
Subscriptions to any of these issues addressed to a Federal Reserve
bank or branch, or to the Treasury Department, and placed in the mail
before 12 o’clock midnight of the respective closing days will be considered
as having been entered before the close of the subscription books.
Announcement of the amount of subscriptions and the bases of allot­
ment on cash subscriptions will probably be made on Monday, October 11.
Yours very truly,
R. R. GILBERT
President

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