We, recognizing the urgent necessity of the Ordinance concerning the maximum lmit of Treasuary Bills and Temporary Government Loan in the twenty-first fiscal year of Showa (1946-47), hereby give thereto Our sanction with the advice of the Privy Council, in accordance with Paragraph 1 of Article 70 of the Imperial Constitution, and cause the said Ordinance to be promulgated.
Signed: Hirohito, Seal of the Emperor
This twenty-sixth day of the fourth month of the twenty-first Year of Showa (26 April, 1946)
Countersigned: Baron Kijuro Shidehara Prime Minister Minister of First Demobilization Department Minister of Second Demobilization Department
Chuzo Mitsuchi Minister of Home Affairs
Chuzo Iwata Minister of Justice
Shigeru Yoshida Minister of Foreign Affairs
Joji Matsumoto Minister of State
Hitoshi Ashida Minister of Welfare
Viscount Keizo Shibusawa Minister of Finance
Sankuro Ogasawara Minister of Commerce and Industry
Yoshishige Abe Minister of Education
Sempachi Soejima Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
Giichi Murakami Minister of Transportation
Takeshige Ishiguro Minister of State
Wataru Narahashi Minister of State
Imperial Ordinance No. 241