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A meeting of the Federal Reserve Board was held in the office of
the Federal Reserve Board on Saturday, April 2, 1932
PRESENT:

at 10:50 a.

Governor reyer
Harrlin
::iller
Tr. James
nr. agee
Mr. T:orrill, Secretary.

The Board considered and acted unon the followinf!, matters:
Letter to the Federal Reserve Agent at New York, approved by five
members of the Board on April 1, 1932, referring to his letter of February
11, 1932, transmitting detailed inforliation with regard to the absorption
on December 19, 1931, of the Linden National Bank, Linden, New Jersey, by
the Linden Trust Comany; the reply stating that in view of the fact that
the Linden Trust Company acquired, through the transaction, the note of the
national bank in an amount representing a large proportion of the total
assets of the trust company, the note being secured by criticized assets,
the Board will defer final consideration, until after another examination
Of the trust company, of the question whether the transaction has resulted
in a change in the character of the assets of the trust company within the

meaning of the general condition of membership to which it is subject.

The

reply also requested the Agent to furnish the Board with further advice in
the matter after the next examination of the Linden Trust Company, and
a reconnendation as to the action which should be taken.
Reply approved.
Report of Standing Committee dated April 2, 1912, recommending
approval of the following change in stock at a Federal reserve bank:




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Shares
-.12.0.19ation for ORIGINAL Stock:
District Eo. 11.
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Fredericksburg National Bank, Fredericksburg, Texas.

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Approved.
Ilenorts of Standing Committee dated Larch 31 and April 2, 1932,
recnnnendinT; ao)roval of the following Clayton Act applications:
do T. Kemper, Jr. for permission to serve at the same
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time as director of the City Bank and Trust Company of Kansas
City, ilissouri, as director and officer of the 2irst National
Bank of independence, Lissouri, and as director and officer of
the Citizens National Bank of Frankfort, Kansas.

1:r. F. S. LeGrow for permission to serve at the sane time
as director and officer of the First National Bank of Athena,
Oregon, and as director and officer of the First Inland National
Bank of Pendleton, Oregon.
Ls. Horace Hammond for permission to serve at the same time
as director of the Fairfield American National Bank of Fairfield,
Alabama, and as director of the First National Bank of Birmingham,
Alabama.
Mr. T. VT. Tutwiler for permission to serve at the same time
as director of the North Birminghan-Anerican Bank of Birmingham,
Alabama, and as director of the First National Bank of Birmingham,
Alabama.
Mr. John Elmer Viallace for permission to serve at the sane
time as officer of the Citizens & Southern National Bank of
Savannah, Georgia, as director of the LaGrange National Bank of
LaGrange, Georgia, and as director of the Albany Exchange National
Rank of Albany, Georgia.

Mr. F. A. Shaughnessy for permission to serve at the sane
time as director of the Central Farmers Trust Company of West
Palm Beach, Florida, and as director and officer of the First
National Bank in Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida.
W. G. Skelly for permission to serve at the same tine as
director of the First National Bank and Trust Company of Tulsa,
Oklahoma, and as director of the Empire Trust Company of 1,:ew York
City, New York.
la'. C. E. McCutchen for permission to serve as director and
officer of the First National Bank of Wichita Falls, Texas, and as
director of the First National Bank in 7:unday, ninday, Texas.




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Mr. E. D. Nino for permission, to serve at the same time as
director of the First National Bank in St. Louis, St. Louis,
Missouri, as director of the Commerce Trust Company of Kftrisas
City, Missouri, and as director of the First National Bank and
Trust Company of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Approved.

Thereupon the neeting adjourned.

Secretary:

Approved: