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Lt a .neeting of the Gold Export Committee of the Federal Reserve i;oard held in the office of eke Board on Tuesday, June 11, 1918, at 10:35 A.M., PRESENT: Mr. Warburg, presiding, Mr. illis, Secretary. Mr. Miller, 2resent also: Mr. Strauss 4plications for permission to export coin, bullion and currency, with papers relative thereto, were presented and acted upon as follows: Telegram from L'as. G. P. Windsor re application of Nacozari hallroad Co. (Eo. 2014) for permission to 150,0u0 gold to Mexico, ,131,0u0 of which was export authorized June 7th; also letter of March 4th to Mr. D. J. 7aff in connection with application r.o. 1333. Granted as exception to avoid embarrassment - more data needed. 4p1ication of First ::ational Bank of Eagle Pass to export 1,33,0UU gold to Continental-:exican Rubber Co., Piedras regras, Lioxico (No.2062), tabled June 8th and 10th. Declined. Letter from Monsieur Paul Romain, Port-au- -)rincu re certain old silver coins of Haiti which have high silver content. Secretary to say matter is one for private banking enterprise. Send letter to New York. Letter from First National Bank of Douglas, Arizona, re taxes levied on mining properties in Mexico by Mexican Government. Secretary directed to reply. Telegram from First rational Bank of Eagle Pass, Texas, re application of recent Presidential proclamation broadening the Trading-with-the-Enemy Act to Syrians and Arabs residing in Mexico. Secretary directed to say question submitted to State Department. Ask State Department to get reply from Fletcher. • 2078. C,.2.Barreda, Brownsville, Texas, to Collector of Customs, Matamoros, Mexico, ,2,l00 gold coin. Granted. 2079. Los Angeles Tanning Co., Nogales, Ariz., to Collector of Customs, Nogales, Mexico, 05,000 gold coin. Granted. 2080. Hidalgo Copper Smelting,Co., from Laredo, Texas, to same, Mexico City, Mexico, $20,000. gold coin. Declined; but say he will be granted reim-. portation allowance and allowance for duties. 2081. V. Guerra & Co., Laredo, Texas, to A. G. Pierrus, 'Suer., Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, $4,000 gold coin. Granted for all except bones and pecans. 2082. Austin Bros., Dallas, Texas, to Compania Pundidora de Fierro y Acero de Monterrey, Mexico, $35,702.81 gold coin. 2083. Declined. First National Bank, Nogales, Arizona, to V. A. Garcia, in Sonora, Mexico, $50,000 silver coin. Granted. 2084. W. H. Mason, Jr., Company, Brownsville, Texas, to Collector of Customs, Matamoros, Mexico, f;10,000 gold coin. Declined on account of blanket character. 2085. Potrero Mining Co., Los Angeles, Cal., through Nogales, Ariz., to Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, :$10,000 gold coin. Granted to amount of 25. 2086. Miguel Madrozo, care First National Bank, Brownsville, Texas, to same, Matamoros, Mexico, 115,000 (.;4,000 paper currency except gold or silver certificates and 14,000 gold coin). 2087. Granted. United Fruit Co., New Orleans, La., to same, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, Central America, ;30,000 paper currency except gold or silver certificates. 2088. Granted. C. F. Clarke & Co., Le Roy, New York to customers in Canada gold and silver coins not to exceed ;1200. Granted. 2089. 0. i. Clarke & Co., Le Eoy, New York, to Walter D. Clifford, 'Annipeg, Man., eanada, $12 (2 03 gold pieces). 2090. Granted. L. Vogelstein & Co., Inc., New York, to Mocatta & Goldsmid, London, 50,000 bar silver. Granted. 2091. J. van der Tuuk, New York, to carry on person to Amsterdam, Holland, 4130 gold. 2092. Granted. Canadian Bank of Commerce, New York, to Liessrs. 2docatta & Goldsmid, London, '120,000 silver bullion. Granted. 2093. C. L. Cochius, New York to carry on person to Amsterdam, Holland, 4225 gold. 2094. State Department to Legation at Caracas, Venezuela, ')4,000 gold in pouch leaving today. (This file and cablegram presented by Ur. Fitzsimmons of State Department, who said that message was just received, and that he would immediately prepare and have signed by Secretary of State the usual formal request for this permit, as in the case of the former shipment of :,i13,000, which was granted - No.1852 Granted. Letter from J. A. Neilson of Mercantile Bank of Americas re asphalt and exchange situation in Venezuela. Read and ordered circulated. Letter from Faust & Wilson re Mexican Gulf Oil Company's application. Read and declined if gold can be had in Tampico. Secretary directed to state to rorwegian legation the details as to licenses for silver to Norway recently granted. At 11:45 A. M., the meeting adjourned. APPROVED: Secretary, Chairman.
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