On March 6, however, the newly inaugurated president, Franklin Roosevelt, had ordered the Treasury not to pay out any gold, and ordered that banks holding gold transmit it to their Federal Reserve bank.
但是，新任总统富兰克林·德拉诺·罗斯福于3月6日命令财政部停止使用黄金付款，并要求银行将持有的黄金转至联邦储备银行。