View original document

The full text on this page is automatically extracted from the file linked above and may contain errors and inconsistencies.

A meeting of the Board of Governors of the. Federal Reserve
tera was
held in Washington on Monday, June 2, 1941, at 11:00 a.m.

PRESENT:

Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.

Ransom, Vice Chairman
Szymczak
McKee
Draper

Mr. Morrill, Secretary
Mr. Carpenter, Assistant Secretary
Mr. Clayton, Assistant to the Chairman
The action stated with respect to each of the matters hereinEit.t'ar referred to was taken by the Board:
The minutes of the meeting of the Board of Governors of the
ederal Reserve System held on May 31, 1941, were approved unanimously.
Memorandum from Mr. Carpenter recommending that, for the reason
tecl in the memorandum, William D. Thompson be appointed as a clerk
the Office of the Secretary, with salary at the rate of $1,620 per
11r4) effective as of the date upon which he enters upon the performee o.k.
Ills duties after having passed satisfactorily the usual physical

Approved unanimously.
Letter to the board of directors of the "State Bank of Arthur",
114111r) Illinois, stating that, subject to conditions of membership
11114 r
e-e-, 1 to 3 contained in the Board's Regulation H, the Board apDrove
8 the bank's application for membership in the Federal Reserve
8rIltem and for the appropriate amount of stock in the Federal Reserve
44k of
Chicago.




6/2/41

-2-

Approved unanimously for transmission through the Federal Reserve Bank of
Chicago.
Mr. Morrill suggested that the Board authorize the payment of
the

Cost of
luncheons served in the Board's dining room today to Messrs.

red Berger, John Evans, and Elbridge Brown, who constituted a comkittee
from the Pennsylvania Bankers Association and who met with memher.,
of the Board and staff today to discuss the draft of handbook pre'
Pared
bY the committee covering the operation of common trust funds
osed

principallY of mortgages.
Approved unanimously.

Thereupon the meeting adjourned.

Secretary.

11111%0Ited:




Vice Chairman.