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FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
OF DALLAS

Dallas, Texas, October 10, 1940

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

The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the following general license:
“ GENERAL LICENSE NO. 11, AS AMENDED, UNDER EXECUTIVE
ORDER NO. 8389 o f April 10, 1940, as amended, and Regulations issued
pursuant thereto, relating to transactions in foreign exchange, etc.*
A general license is hereby granted authorizing payments and
transfers of credit in the United States from accounts in banking
institutions within the United States in which a national o f any o f the
foreign countries designated in Executive Order No. 8389 o f April 10,
1940, as amended, has a property interest within the meaning of the
Executive Order o f April 10, 1940, as amended, and the Regulations
issued thereunder, to or upon the order of the person in whose name
the account is held, provided that—
(a) The banking institution making any such payments or trans­
fers of credit satisfies itself that such payments and transfers
of credit are needed for living, traveling and similar personal
expenses in the United States,
(b) Such payments and transfers of credit by such banking
institution do not exceed $500 in any one month to or for
the account of any one depositor, and
(c) Each banking institution making any such payments or trans­
fers o f credit shall file promptly with the appropriate Federal
Reserve bank monthly reports showing the details o f such
payments and transfers of credit.
D. W. BELL
Acting Secretary of the Treasury”
October 10, 1940
*P a r t 141— Sec. 5 ( b ) , 40 S tat. 4 15 and 9 6 6 ; Sec. 2, 4 8 S tat. 1 ; Public R esolution N o . 69,
76th C o n g re ss; 12 U . S. C. 9 5 a ; E x . Order 6560, Jan. 15, 1 9 3 4 ; E x . O rder 8389, A p r il 10,
1 9 4 0 ; E x . Order 8405, M a y 10, 1 9 4 0 ; R egu lation s, A p r il 10, 1940, as am ended M a y 10,
1940.

Yours very truly,
R. R. GILBERT
President

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