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Minutes of actions taken

-CAE; Foard of Governors of the

4derai
Reserve
PRESEVT:

ystem on Mondvy, Earch
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.

M,7,-,rtin, Chairmen
Lzymozak
Evans
Vordaman
Powell
Mills
Robertson
Mr. Carpenter, Lecretry
Mr. Sherman, A::saitnt Lucre
Mr. Kenyon, i_ssistant

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Minutes of
actions taken by the Board o-f GovaraGro of the
Reserve System on February 7), 19:)2, were approved unanimously.
Minutes of the meeting of the Board of Governors of trie 7ederal
Re"rile SYetem with the Presidents of the Federal Reserve Banks held
"elpIllarY 29, 19)2, were approved unanimously.
Letter to Mr. McCreed, Fecrcta17,

ecleml Reserve Bank of Phila-

readlnE as follows:
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"The Board of Governors approve,,:, the reappo.ntuel
°I. Ivie
liLon,
Pow
.
Keith
Jet., sere. B. F. Mechlin3-, Forry L. Miller,
/4a-s m. skinner, and Daniel IT. Lchultrz, as members of the
zerlIstrial Advisory Committee for the Third Federal Re:
v
District to serve for term, of one ye%r each, be1116 March 1, l9t)2, in accordance with the acV—cn ,ten
by ti,
phil-Le Board of Directors of the 1:edell Irserve TAn]ro
192e. elPhja, as reported in your letter of FeTru,,,,r: ,t ,

Approved unanimousl.
etter to
Mr. Hill, Vice Preident, T
Nita
'reading as follows:




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T .,,:iff or rbila_

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3/3/52
-2-"This refers to your letter of February 4, 1952, eng a copy of a letter from The Pennsylvania Company for
11
11-king and. Trusts, askinc; permission to extend the business
itS affiliate, the Colonial ,'-u_rety Company, to include
the
fire, theft, and collision insurance of autollwrlesitirle. of
purchased. for cash where the purchasers are willing
_ Permit the ,automobile dealer to write the insUranCe as
'agent for
the surety company.
"It is understood from your letter that the parties
'
reriv aEreed that the Colonial E'urety Company will not handle
eN`lals of any such Policies; that it will reinsure 90 per
of the risk. as is being done on business fresently
Iner1-11g, Witten on sales financed by such dealers throujh the
this tyre of
bu:bier bank; and that it is wi lThn to limjt
1/0-;riess so that its 10 per cent portion of the risk assumed
-Ld not exceed $25,000 measured by the amount of premiums
u°1:ce at any one time.
Previously indicated in our Letter of /larch 7, 1951,
'ard
erio;`
seriously questions the :.rc,:riety of a rdenber bank's
1/017g:1.11E, directly or indirectly, in the insurance business.
er, In view of the comnaratively small amount of additional
kvl,
ri8e
the "ere involved, the Board will interpose no objection. to
2ur_extension of the insurance operctior,c by the Colonial
eejtY Company to the extent and subject to the limitations
fc)rth above.'

4

Approved unan!mously.
Letter to the Honorable
John D. Hickerson, Assistant Secretary
ta•lc.e)
ca8111-11Cton, D. C., readinu as follows:
"This
re1,14.
acknowledge your letter of Icebninry 26) 1952,
'
111-g to United Ftates particip-tion in international conrisen incident
to t:We have noted. the problems -which
Fund
eala "
t}
e depletion of the 'International Cont-;,
to insure
le Principles which have been et
ad.en '
'
1J'ate United F'tates rerresent,t'od 'n International




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nferences to be held during the remainder of the f*
1952 and during the fiscal year 1953."




Approved unanimously.