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A meeting of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System was held
in Washington on Thursday, October 19, 1944, at 10:30

PRESENT:

Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.

Ransom, Vice Chairman
Szymczak
McKee
Draper
Evans

Mr. Morrill, Secretary
Mr. Bethea, Assistant Secretary
Mr. Clayton, Assistant to the Chairman
The action
stated with respect to each of the matters hereinafter ref
erred to was taken by the Board:
The minutes of
the meeting of the Board of Governors of the
ltderaa

Reserve System held on October 18, 1944, were approved unani-

1.40118ly

Memorandum dated October 16, 1944, from Mr. Morrill, recommendthat the
following increases in basic annual salaries of employees
the P
-ecretaryl s Office be approved, effective November 1, 1944:

Designation
William Hyde
1?avid
itdezi Sullivan
Hauser
,Charles
R. Nichols
qif4rd.B. Myers

Senior Guard
Senior Guard
Guard
Guard
Guard

Salary Increase
To
From
$1,740
1,740
1,620
1,620
1,620

$1,800
1,800
1,680
1,680
1,680

Approved unanimously.
Memorandum,
dated October 18, 1944, from Mr. Paulger, Director




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of the
Division of Examinations, submitting the resignation of Ross
17. Morgan as an Assistant Federal Reserve Examiner in that Division,
to
become effective as of
the close of business on October 31, 1944,
and re
commending that the resignation be accepted as of that date.
The resignation was accepted as rec—
ommended.
Letter to Mr. Wayne, Vice President of the Federal Reserve
Bank of

Richmond, reading as follows:

"In accordance with the request contained in your
letter of
October 16, 1944, the Board approves the desig—
r:l_ation of the
following as special assistant examiners
for the
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond:
E. P. Parham
Melvin B. Nunnally
Dewey Daane
J. Hammond Siler
Carl W. White
Hugh C. Singleton"
Approved unanimously.
Letter to the board of directors of the "Farmers & Merchants
Bank"

Manchester, Iowa, stating that, subject to conditions

IlleMbershiP numbered 1 to 6 contained in the Board's Regulation H,
the Board
approves the bank's application for membership in the Fed—
"41 Reserve
System and for the appropriate amount of stock in the
ederal
Reserve Bank of Chicago.




Approved unanimously, for transmis—
sion through the Federal Reserve Bank of
Chicago.




Thereupon the meeting adjourned.