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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, September 19, 1949

EXCHANGE OFFERING

To All Banking Institutions, and Others Concerned,
in the Eleventh Federal Reserve District:
There is reproduced on the reverse side hereof Treasury Department Circular No. 850, in which
the Secretary of the Treasury offers 1% percent Treasury Certificates of Indebtedness of Series
H-1950, on an exchange basis, par for par, to holders of Treasury Certificates of Indebtedness of
Series G-1949, in the amount of $6,535,161,000, which will mature on October 1, 1949. Cash sub­
scriptions will not be received.
The new certificates will be dated October 1, 1949, and will bear interest from that date at the
rate of one and one-eighth percent per annum, payable with the principal at maturity on October 1,
1950. They will be issued in bearer form only, in denominations of $1,000, $5,000, $10,000, $100,000
and $1,000,000.
The books for the receipt of subscriptions to this exchange offering will be opened Wednesday,
September 21, 1949. All timely subscriptions will be allotted in full.
Subscriptions will be received at this bank and its branches at El Paso, Houston and San
Antonio, and should be submitted on the enclosed form, with surrender of the maturing certificates.
It is urged that subscriptions be entered on the subscription form s; however, when it is neces­
sary to enter a subscription by letter or otherwise, a confirmation should be furnished on an official
subscription form as soon as the forms are received. Additional subscription forms will be for­
warded on request.
CLOSING OF SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS

The subscription books will close for the receipt of all subscriptions at the close of business
Saturday, September 24. No further closing announcement will be made.
Subscriptions addressed to a Federal Reserve bank or branch or to the Treasury Department
and placed in the mail before midnight of the closing day will be considered as having been entered
before the close of the subscription books.
Yours very truly,
R. R. GILBERT
President

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
O N E A N D O N E -E IG H T H P E R C E N T T R E A S U R Y CE R T IF IC A T E S O F IN D E B T E D N E S S O F
SE R IE S H -1 9 S 0

Dated and bearing interest from October 1, 1949
1949

Due October 1, 1950
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Office of the Secretary
Washington, September 21, 1949

Department Circular No. 850
Fiscal Service
Bureau of the Public Debt

I. OFFERING OF CERTIFICATES
1. The Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to the authority of the Second Liberty Bond Act,
as amended, invites subscriptions, at par, from the people of the United States, for certificates of
indebtedness of the United States, designated 1y$ percent Treasury Certificates of Indebtedness of
Series H-1950, in exchange for Treasury Certificates of Indebtedness of Series G-1949, maturing
October 1, 1949.
II. DESCRIPTION OF CERTIFICATES
1. The certificates will be dated October 1, 1949, and will bear interest from that date at the
rate of 1Vs percent per annum, payable with the principal at maturity on October 1, 1950. They will
not be subject to call for redemption prior to maturity.
2. The income derived from the certificates shall be subject to all taxes now or hereafter
imposed under the Internal Revenue Code, or laws amendatory or supplementary thereto. The
certificates shall be subject to estate, inheritance, gift or other excise taxes, whether Federal or
State, but shall be exempt from all taxation now or hereafter imposed on the principal or interest
thereof by any State, or any of the possessions of the United States, or by any local taxing authority.
3. The certificates will be acceptable to secure deposits of public moneys. They will not be
acceptable in payment of taxes.
4. Bearer certificates will be issued in denominations of $1,000, $5,000, $10,000, $100,000 and
$1,000,000. The certificates will not be issued in registered form.
5. The certificates will be subject to the general regulations of the Treasury Department, now
or hereafter prescribed, governing United States certificates.
III.

SUBSCRIPTION AND ALLOTMENT

1. Subscriptions will be received at the Federal Reserve Banks and Branches and at the
Treasury Department, Washington. Banking institutions generally may submit subscriptions for
account of customers, but only the Federal Reserve Banks and the Treasury Department are
authorized to act as official agencies.
2. The Secretary of the Treasury reserves the right to reject any subscriptions, in whole or in
part, to allot less than the amount of certificates applied for, and to close the books as to any or
all subscriptions at any time without notice; and any action he may take in these respects shall be
final. Subject to these reservations, all subscriptions will be allotted in full. Allotment notices will
be sent out promptly upon allotment.
IV. PAYMENT
1. Payment at par for certificates allotted hereunder must be made on or before October 1,
1949, or on later allotment, and may be made only in Treasury Certificates of Indebtedness of
Series G-1949, maturing October 1, 1949, which will be accepted at par, and should accompany the
subscription. The full year’s interest on the certificates surrendered will be paid to the subscriber
following acceptance of the certificates.
V. GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. As fiscal agents of the United States, Federal Reserve Banks are authorized and requested
to receive subscriptions, to make allotments on the basis and up to the amounts indicated by the
Secretary of the Treasury to the Federal Reserve Banks of the respective Districts, to issue allot­
ment notices, to receive payment for certificates allotted, to make delivery of certificates on fullpaid subscriptions allotted, and they may issue interim receipts pending delivery of the definitive
certificates.
2. The Secretary of the Treasury may at any time, or from time to time, prescribe supple­
mental or amendatory rules and regulations governing the offering, which will be communicated
promptly to the Federal Reserve Banks.
JOHN W. SNYDER,
Secretary of the Treasury.