Evening star., 1920-01-13
RETURN0F UNSOLD
". SIS. IS ORDERED
Banks, Trust Companies and
Agents of Fifth Dis
trict Notified.

| All banks, trust companies and au-
thorized agents in the fifth federal
| reserve district have just been no.
titled by the Federal Reserve Bank of
| Richmond that all agents of the first
, class are required to surrender all
unsold war savings stamps, series of
| 1919. remaining in their hands at the
close of business December 81, 1919.
Such surrender may be made (D di-
| rect to the Federal Reserve Bank or
| CD through an incorporated bank or
trust company.
If made direct to the Federal Re-
serve Bank. such stamps so surren-
| dered must reach the Federal Reserve
| Bank by January 81, 1920. If the
surrender be made to an incorporated
| bank or trust company. such surren-
| der must be made on or before jan
uary 20, 1920. and then the stamps
must be forwarded by the bank or
| trust company to whom they We're
| surrendered and reach the Federal
Reserve Eank by January 81, 19Zo.
Must Return I-nsoId Stamps.
All cash and collateral agents of
the second class are required to re-
turn all unsold war savings stamps
series of 1919. and all unsold Treasury
savings certificates. series of 1919, re-
naming in their hands at the close OF
business December 81, 1919. Such
stamps and certificates so surrendered
must reach the federal reserve bank
by January 81, 1920.
The franking privilege cannot prop
erly be extended to cover any sur
renders.
Agents of the first class as we'll as
agents of the second class surrender
ing direct to the federal reserve bank
e-$r ND a "a G
ury savings certificates remaining in
their hands unsold at the close OF
business December 81, 1919. must
make such deliveries to the federal
reserve bank at their own expense
and risk. Accordingly, postage. regis
tration and insurance charges on ship
ments of certificates and stamps so
surrendered will not be borne by the
Treasury Department nor reimbursed
by it nor by the federal reserve bank.
Two Qualifications.
These regulations. however, are
qualified in two particulars:
l. Federal reserve banks are author
lied to extend to incorporated banks
and trust companies the privilege OIL
insuring shipments of surrendered
Treasury savings certificates and war
savings stamps, series of 1919, provld-
ed appropriate adviceS of such ship
ments are sent by mail under sepa-
rate cover to the federal reserve bank
on form WSS 5. and, provided further,
that the bank making the request
agrees to reimburse the federal re-
serve bank for the cost of the insur-
ance.
9 Where an incorporated bank or
trust company accepts war savings
stamps surrendered to it by an agent
of the first class or by a sales station,
or where an incorporated bank or
trust company is itself an agent OF
the first class (but not if it is an
agent of the second CLASSY, and has on
hand unsold war savings stamps pre-
viously supplied to it as an agent of
the first class, then in either case
such stamps may be forwarded to the
federal reserve bank by such lncor-
porated bank or trust company by in
sured mail at the expense of the fed
eral reserve bank, provided appro-
pirate advices of such shipments are
sent by mail under separate cover to
the federal reserve bank on form
WSS 4.
Eliot II. Thompson to Speak.
Eliot H. Thompson, manager of ad-
vertising and new business depart
ment of the Washington Loan and
Trust Company, and formerly cashier
of the freight department of the
Pennsylvania railroad. will deliver a
lecture tonight before the local chap
ter of the American Institute of Bank
ing. at o'clock. Mr.. Thompson will
take Bills of Lading" as his subject.