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FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
OF DALLAS

Dallas, Texas, June 18, 1940

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

There is quoted below text of Executive Order No. 8446, amending
Executive Order No. 8389 of April 10,1940, as amended, regulating transac­
tions in foreign exchange, transfers o f credit, and the export o f coin and
currency:
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 8446
“ By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5 (b) of the
A ct of October 6, 1917 (40 Stat. 411), as amended, and by virtue
o f all other authority vested in me, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSE­
VELT, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
do hereby amend Executive Order No. 8389 of April 10, 1940, as
amended, so as to extend all the provisions thereof to, and with
respect to, property in which France, or any national thereof, has
at any time on or since June 17, 1940, had any interest o f any
nature whatsoever, direct or indirect; except that, in defining
‘France’ and ‘national’ o f France the date ‘June 17, 1940,’ shall be
substituted fo r the dates appearing in the definitions of countries
and nationals thereof.
THE WHITE HOUSE
June 17,1940

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT”

Yours very truly,
R. R. GILBERT
President

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