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A. meeting of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
SYstea was held in Washington on Wednesday, March 9, 1938, at 11:30
a. zn.
PRESENT:

Mr. Eccles, Chairman
Mr. Ransom, Vice Chairman
Mr. Szymczak
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.

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

Consideration was given to each of the matters hereinafter referred to and the action stated with respect thereto was taken by the
Board:
Memorandum dated March 7, 1938, from Mr. Goldenweiser, Director
of the Division of Research and Statistics, recommending the appointment
°11 a temporary basis for a period of three months of Miss Tosephine F.
Bertolini as a clerk in the Division, with salary at the rate of $120

Per month, effective as of the date upon which she enters upon the perof her duties.

The memorandum stated that should Miss Ber-

tolini,s work prove satisfactory, it was planned to recaamend that she
be appointed to a permanent position.
The temporary appointment was approved
unanimously.
Memorandum dated March 8, 1938, from Mr. Morrill recommending

that, for the reason stated in the memorandum, Mr. Harold G. Wise be
elVointed as a page in the Office of the Secretary, with salary at the
rate of $1,080 per annum, effective as of the date upon which he enters




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UPon the performance of his duties after having passed satisfactorily
the usual physical examination.

The memorandum also recommended that

the title of Mr. Tames C. Kolinski be changed from page to clerk in the
Office of the Secretary, and that his salary be increased to $1,320
Per annum, effective as of March 16, 1938.
The recommendations contained in Mr.
Morrill's memorandum were approved unanimously.
Memorandum dated March 8, 1938, from Mr. Goldenweiser, Director
the Division of Research and Statistics, submitting the resignation
orMr. William L. Starr, Jr., temporary junior economist in the Division,
to be effective at the expiration of such annual leave as Mr. Starr
IllaY have accumulated on March 5, 1938.

The memorandum recommended that

the resignation be accepted.
Approved unanimously.
Memorandum dated March 8, 1938, from Mr. Goldenweiser, Director
(31* the Division of Research and Statistics, submitting the resignation
c)f Mrs. Cherie L. Boebreckx as a clerk in the Division, to be effective
at the expiration of such annual leave as may be due on March 31, 1938,
the date on which she plans to leave.

The memorandum recommended that

the resignation be accepted.
Approved unanimously.
Letter to Mr. Sheehan, Manager of the Bank Examinations Depart-

zent of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, reading as follows:




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"Replying to your letter of January 24, loans to Federal Land Banks, Federal Home Loan Banks and Federal Intermediate Credit Banks should not be classified as loans to
banks but as loans to corporations (other than banks) in
weekly condition reports Form 3-21 and quarterly condition
reports Form 105. Likewise, deposits by Federal Land Banks,
Federal Home Loan Banks and Federal Intermediate Credit
Banks should be classified as deposits of corporations (other
than banks) in such condition reports."




Approved unanimously.

Thereupon the meeting adjourned.

Secregry.

Chairman.