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F ED E R A L R ES ER V E BANK O F NEW YORK
Fiscal Agent of the United States
TCircular No. 6 5 0 8 1
March 18, 1970 J

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OFFERING OF TWO SERIES OF TREASURY BILLS
$1,800,000,000 of 91-Day Bills, Additional Amount, Series Dated December 26, 1969, Due June 25, 1970
(To Be Issued March 26, 1970)
$1,300,000,000 of 182-Day Bills, Dated March 26, 1970, Due September 24, 1970
To A ll Incorporated Banks and Trust Companies, and Others
Concerned, in the Second Federal Reserve District:

Following is the text of a notice issued by the Treasury Department, released at 4 p.m. today:
T he T reasury D epartm ent, by this public notice, invites
tenders for two series of T reasury bills to the aggregate am ount
of $3,100,000,000, or thereabouts, for cash and in exchange for
T reasury bills m aturing March 26, 1970, in the am ount of
$3,010,463,000, as follows:
91-day bills (to m aturity date) to be issued M arch 26,
1970, in the am ount of $1,800,000,000, or thereabouts,
representing an additional am ount of bills dated De­
cember 26, 1969, and to m ature June 25, 1970, originally
issued in the am ount of $1,209,135,000, the additional
and original bills to be freely interchangeable.
182-day bills, for $1,300,000,000, or thereabouts, to be
dated M arch 26, 1970, and to m ature September 24,
1970.
The bills of both series will be issued on a discount basis
under competitive and noncompetitive bidding as hereinafter
provided, and at m aturity their face am ount will be payable
w ithout interest. They will be issued in bearer form only, and
in denominations of $10,000, $50,000, $100,000, $500,000 and
$1,000,000 (m aturity value).
Tenders will be received at Federal Reserve Banks and
Branches up to the closing hour, one-thirty p.m., Eastern
Standard time, Monday, March 23, 1970. Tenders will not
be received at the T reasury D epartm ent, W ashington. Each
tender m ust be for an even multiple of $10,000, and in the case
of competitive tenders the price offered must be expressed
on the basis of 100, with not more than three decimals, e.g.,
99.925. Fractions may not be used. It is urged that tenders
be made on the printed forms and forwarded in the special
envelopes which will be supplied by Federal Reserve Banks or
Branches on application therefor.
Banking institutions generally may submit tenders for
account of customers, provided the names of the customers are
set forth in such tenders. O thers than banking institutions will
not be perm itted to submit tenders except for their own account.
T enders will be received w ithout deposit from incorporated
banks and trust companies and from responsible and recognized
dealers in investment securities. Tenders from others m ust be
accompanied by paym ent of 2 percent of the face am ount of
T reasury bills applied for, unless the tenders are accompanied
by an express guaranty of paym ent by an incorporated bank or
trust company.
Immediately after the closing hour, tenders will be opened
at the Federal Reserve Banks and Branches, following which

public announcem ent will be made by the T reasury D epart­
ment of the am ount and price range of accepted bids. Only
those subm itting competitive tenders will be advised of the
acceptance or rejection thereof. The Secretary of the T reasury
expressly reserves the right to accept or reject any or all
tenders, in whole or in part, and his action in any such respect
shall be final. Subject to these reservations, noncom petitive
tenders for each issue for $200,000 or less w ithout stated price
from any one bidder will be accepted in full at the average
price (in three decimals) of accepted competitive bids for the
respective issues. Settlem ent for accepted tenders in accordance
with the bids m ust be made or completed at the Federal Reserve
Bank on M arch 26, 1970, in cash or other immediately available
funds or in a like face am ount of T reasury bills m aturing
March 26, 1970. Cash and exchange tenders will receive equal
treatm ent. Cash adjustm ents will be made for differences be­
tween the par value of m aturing bills accepted in exchange
and the issue price of the new bills.
T he income derived from T reasury bills, w hether interest
or gain from the sale or other disposition of the bills, does not
have any exemption, as such, and loss from the sale or other
disposition of T reasury bills does not have any special tre a t­
ment, as such, under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. The
bills are subject to estate, inheritance, gift or other excise
taxes, w hether Federal or State, but are exem pt from all taxa­
tion now or hereafter imposed on the principal or interest
thereof by any State, or any of the possessions of the U nited
States, or by any local taxing authority. For purposes of
taxation the am ount of discount at which T reasury bills are
originally sold by the U nited States is considered to be interest.
U nder Sections 454(b) and 1221(5) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1954, the am ount of discount at which bills issued
hereunder are sold is not considered to accrue until such bills
are sold, redeemed or otherwise disposed of, and such bills
are excluded from consideration as capital assets. Accordingly,
the owner of T reasury bills (other than life insurance com ­
panies) issued hereunder need include in his income tax return
only the difference between the price paid for such bills,
w hether on original issue or on subsequent purchase, and the
am ount actually received either upon sale or redem ption at
m aturity during the taxable year for which the return is made,
as ordinary gain or loss.
T reasury D epartm ent Circular No. 418 (current revision)
and this notice prescribe the term s of the T reasury bills and
govern the conditions of their issue. Copies of the circular may
be obtained from any Federal Reserve Bank or Branch.

This Bank will receive tenders for both series up to 1 :30 p.m., Eastern Standard time, Monday, March 23, 1970,
at the Securities Department of its Head Office and at its Buffalo Branch. Tender forms for the respective series are
enclosed; because tenders must now be for $10,000 or multiples thereof, as described above, the enclosed tender forms,
which were printed in advance of notice of this change, should be filled out accordingly. Please use the appropriate
forms to submit tenders and return them in the enclosed envelope marked “Tender for Treasury Bills (W eek ly ).”
Tenders may be submitted by telegraph, subject to written confirmation; they may not be submitted by telephone. P ay­
ment for the Treasury bills cannot be made by credit through the Treasury T ax and Loan Account. Settlem ent must
be made in cash or other immediately available funds or in maturing Treasury bills.
Results of the last weekly offering of Treasury bills (91-day bills to be issued M arch 19, 1970, representing an
additional amount of bills dated December 18, 1969, m aturing June 18, 1970; and 182-day bills dated M arch 19, 1970,
m aturing September 17, 1970) are shown on the reverse side of this circular.




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Tenders must be for $10,000 or m ultiples thereof.

RESULTS OF LAST W EEK LY O FFER IN G OF TREASURY BILLS (TW O SERIES
TO BE ISSUED MARCH 19, 1970)

Range of A ccepted Com petitive Bids
91-Day Treasury Bills
M aturing June 18,1970

182-Day i reasury Bills
M aturing September 17,1970

Price

Approx. equiv.
annual rate

Price

Approx. equiv.
annual rate

............... .........................

98.285

6.785%

96.613

6.700%

................ .........................

98.268

6.852%

96.598

6.729%

A verage ......... .........................

98.272

6.836% 1

96.609

6.707% 1

H ig h
Low

1 These rates are on a bank discount basis. The equivalent coupon issue yields are 7.05 percent for the 91-day bills, an
7.04 percent for the 182-day bills.

(61 percent of the am ount of 91-day bills
bid for at the low price was accepted.)

(44 percent of the am ount of 182-day bills
bid for at the low price was accepted.)

Total Tenders Applied for and Accepted (By Federal Reserve Districts)
91-Day Treasury Bills
M aturing June 18,1970
Applied, for

District

Boston ........................ .....................

$

43,360,000

182-Day Treasury Bills
Maturing September 17,1970

Accepted

$

31,970,000

Applied for

$

18,610,000

Accepted

$

6,390,000

New Y o r k ............... ....................

2,104,520,000

1,239,990,000

2,072,730,000

1,016,350,000

Philadelphia ........... ..................

40,600,000

24,140,000

18,360,000

7,900,000

............... ...................

41,500,000

38,930,000

42,870,000

36,690,000

Richmond ................. ...................

20,620,000

15,120,000

11,670,000

8,670,000

...................... ....................

53,330,000

30,920,000

43,910,000

15,410,000

Chicago ...................... ..................

325,050,000

211,680,000

146,760,000

39,930,000

St. L o u i s .................... ....................

64,210,000

45,710,000

38,350,000

24,750,000

........... ..................

38,810,000

16,570,000

21,940,000

4,570,000

Kansas City ........... ....................

37,480,000

30,700,000

20,480,000

19,510,000

...................

32,500,000

17,700,000

27,440,000

14,190,000

San F ra n c is c o .......... ...................

247,190,000

97,480,000

244,610,000

106,920,000

T OTAL .......... ...................

$3,049,170,000

Cleveland

Atlanta

Minneapolis

$l,800,910,000a

$2,707,730,000

a In clu d es $366,250,000 noncom p etitiv e ten d ers accepted a t the av erag e price of 98.272.
b Includes $177,420,000 n oncom petitive ten d ers accepted at the av erag e price of 96.609.




$ 1,301,280,000b