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  Forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion and Gold&#160;Certificates

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5(b) of the Act of October 6, 1917 , as amended by  Section 2 of the Act of March 9, 1933  , entitled “An Act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking, and for other purposes”, in which amendatory Act Congress declared that a serious emergency exists, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do declare that said national emergency still continues to exist and pursuant to said section do hereby prohibit the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States by individuals, partnerships, associations and corporations and hereby prescribe the following regulations for carrying out the purposes of this order: