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FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
OF DALLAS

Dallas, Texas, May 11, 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. 5 UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 8389 of
April 10, 1940, as amended, and Regulations issued pursuant thereto, relat­
ing to transactions in foreign exchange, etc.*
“ A general license is hereby granted authorizing the payment to the
United States and agencies and instrumentalities thereof of taxes, fees,
charges, and other items payable to the United States and agencies and
instrumentalities thereof from accounts in which Norway, Denmark, The
Netherlands, Belgium, or Luxembourg, or a national thereof, has a property
interest within the meaning of the Executive Order of April 10, 1940, as
amended, and the Regulations issued thereunder.
HERBERT E. GASTON
Acting Secretary of the Treasury”
May 10, 1940
*Part 135— Sec. 5 (b ), 40 Stat. 415 and 966; Sec. 2, 48 Stat. 1; Public Resolution No. 69,
76th Congress; 12 U.S.C. 95a; E x. Order 6560, Jan. 15, 1934; E x. O rder 8389, A pril
10, 1940; Ex. Order 8405, M ay 10, 1940; R egulations, A pril 10, 1940, as amended May
10, 1940.

Yours very truly,
R. R. GILBERT
President

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