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Minutes of actions taken by the Board cf Governors of the
Pederea

Reserve System on Thursday, November 17, 1949.
PRESENT:

Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.

Eccles, Chairman pro tem.
Szymczak
Draper
Evans
Clayton
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.

Carpenter, Secretary
Sherman, Assistant Secretary
Morrill, Special Adviser
Thurston, Assistant to the Board

Minutes of actions taken by the Board of Governors of the
"al Reserve System on November 16, 1949, were approved unani41°1184.
Memorandum dated November 16, 1949, from Mr. Nelson, Dil'eetOr

- 0f the Division of Personnel Administration, recommending
44 i'41crease in the basic salary of June E. Ayers, a personnel
techtli
clan in that Division, from $4,600 to $4,72 per annum, ef.1
rev" 17e
November 27, 1949.
Approved unanimously.
Memorandum dated November
'he
t

9, 1949, from Mr. Young, Director

Division of Research and Statistics, recommending that Lewis

lei*itz, Chief of the International Financial Operations Section
14 that Division, be authorized to attend the conference of Economic
ec'13el*etion Administration finance officers in Paris the latter part
Of
the
Present month and to visit in connection with this trip the
l Ettlit or
flgland and one or two other European central banks.




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-2Approved unanimously, together with the following letter
to Mr. Dembitz:

"The Board hereby authorizes you, in your caPacitY as an economist in the Division of Research
and Statistics, to proceed to Paris to attend the
conference of Economic Cooperation Administration
finance officers the latter part of the present
Zonth, leaving Washington on or about November 19
and stopping on your way to and from the conference
to call at the central banks of England, France,
Belgium, and The Netherlands and at the Bank DeutScher Laender in Frankfurt, Germany. It is underthat the travel will be by air and that you
v111 return to Washington about December 11.
"While you are absent from Washington, your
actual necessary transportation expenses in accorda:nce with the Board's travel regulations, charges
ror flight insurance, and a per diem in lieu of
Tlbsistence at the rate of $10.00 will be paid
1•1014 funds under control of the Board.
"It is requested that you retain the original
.
ctif this letter, and that the file copy, after being
"Ilitialed by you, be returned to the Board's files."
Letter to Mr. Weigel, Secretary of the Federal Reserve Bank

st.

Louis, reading as follows:

For the reasons outlined in your letter of No,41oer 14, 1949, the Board of Governors approves the
D4Yment of salary to Mr. August E. Debrecht, ConfirZt,
1tion Audit Clerk, at the rate of $4440 per annum;
"ich rate is in excess of the salary maximum of the
l'ade in which his position is classified."
Approved unanimou

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Secreta

Chairman pro

em.