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A meeting of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
SYstem was held in Washington on Monday, April 22, 1940, at 11:30
a. m.
PRESENT:

Mr. Eccles, Chairman
Mr. Szymczak
Mr. Davis
Mr.
MT.
Mr.
Mr.

Morrill, Secretary
Bethea, Assistant Secretary
Carpenter, Assistant Secretary
Clayton, Assistant to the Chairman

The action stated with respect to each of the matters hereter referred to was taken by the Board:
Bonds, each in the amount of $10,000, executed under date
APIll

9, 1940, by Mr. Harold G. McConnell as Assistant Federal

Reser
ve Agent, and by Messrs. John Johnson and Harold C. Timberlake
Alternate Assistant Federal Reserve Agents, all at the Federal
P.ese4-ve Bank
of Minneapolis.
Approved unanimously.
Letter dated April 20, 1940, to MT. Keesee, Secretary of

the pederal




Reserve Bank of Richmond, reading as follows:
"Acknowledgment is made of your letter
of April 16, 1940, stating that Mr. George
E. Probest, Jr. has resigned from your InduGtrial Advisory Committee and that Mr.
Ludlow H. Baldwin, President of the Terminal
Warehouse Company, Baltimore, Maryland, has
been elected for the unexpired portion of the
term ending February 2, 1941.

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"The information regarding Ir. Baldwin
is noted, and the Board approves his appointment to the Industrial Advisory Committee
for the unexpired portion of the term ending
February 28, 1941."
Approved unanimously.
Letter to the board of directors of the "Muleshoe State
Muleshoe, Texas, stating that, subject to conditions of
Diembership numbered 1 to

3

contained in the Board's Regulation

8-Ald the following special condition, the Board approves the
131111° s application for membership in the Federal Reserve System
"
d for the appropriate amount of stock in the Federal Reserve
Bank of
Dallas:

"4.

Such bank shall make adequate provision
for depreciation in its banking house
and furniture and fixtures."

Approved unanimously for transmission
through the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
Letter dated April 20, 1940, to the board of directors

or

the

"Washington County State Bank", Brenham, Texas, stating

that
) subject to conditions of membership numbered 1 to

3

con-

t'lined in the Board's Regulation H and the following special
e°114iti°n, the Board approves the bank's application for member8114 in the Federal Reserve System and for the appropriate amount
" tc3ck in the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas:




"4. Such bank shall make adequate provision
for depreciation in its banking house
and furniture and fixtures."
Approved unanimously for transmission
through the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.




Thereupon the meeting adjourned.