3:30 U.S. Pres. (Wilson)- .A57 Imports in time of war. 1918 C 382670 **-*-a-sºrrºss º - 1918 ///- MAR 7 - –543 a . A 5-7 / ?/ ? /*- Imports in Timo of War t By THE PREGIOIT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAITATION * - . -- (Imports in time of War.) BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATTON WHERFAS Congress has enacted, and the President has on the Sixth day of October, 1917, approved, a law which contains the following provisions: "Whenever, dºing ºne present war, the President shall find that the pºlic safety so requires and shall make pro- clamation thereof it shall be unjawful to import intº the United States from any country named in such proclamaticn any article or articles mentiºned in such proclamation ex- cept at such time or times, and under such regulatiºns or orders, and subject to such limitations and exceptions as the President shall prescribe, until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress: Provided, however, that no proference shall be given to tho ports of one State ovor those of another." And whereas the President has heretofore by procla- mation dated November 28, 1917, declared certain imports in time of war unlawful, and the Prosident now finds that the public safety requires that such proclamation be amended and supplemented in respect to the articles and countries * tº ºº hereinafter mentioned; -1- (827-1) NOW, THEREFORE, I, WOODROW WILSON, PRESIDENT OF THE uniºn STATES OF AMERICA, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM to all whom it. may concern that the public safety requires that the following articles, namely: all kinds of arms, guns, am- munition and explosives, machines for their manufacture or repair, component parts thereof, materials or ingredients used in their manufacture, and all articles necessary or convenient for their use; all contrivances for or means of transportation on land or in the water or air, achines used in their manufacture or repair, component parts thereof, materials or ingredients used in their manufacture, and all instruments, articles and animals necessary or conven- ient for their use; all means of communication, tools, im- plements, instruments, equipment, unaps, pictures, papers and other articles, machines and documents necessary or con- venient for carrying on hostile operations; all kinds of fuel, food, foodstuffs, feed, forage and clothing, and all articles and materials used in their manufacture; all chemicals, drugs, dye stuffs and tanning materials, cotton, wool, silk, flax, herºp, jute, sisal and other fibres and manufactures thereof; all earths, clay, glass, sand, stone and their products: animals of every kind, their products and derivatives; hides, skins and manufactures thereof; all non-edible animal and vegetable products; all machinery, tools, dies, plates, and apparatus, and materials necessary or convenient for their manufacture; medical, surgical, laboratory and sanitary supplies and equipment; all metals, minerals, mineral (827-2) -2- . *. oils, ores, and ºll derivatives and manufactures thereof; pºper pulp, books and all printed matter, and mºterials necessary and sovement for their manufacture; rubber, gums, rosins, tºrs and waxes, their products, derivatives and substitutes, and all articles containing them; wood and wood manufactures; coffoc, cocoa, tea and spices; wines, spirits, mineral waters and bev- erages; and all other articles of any kind whatsoever shall not, On and after the sixteenth day of February in the year One Thous- and Nine Hundred and Eighteen, be imported into the United States or its territorial possessions from Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, her colonies, possessions and protoctorates, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, her colonies, possessions and protector- ºtes, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Frence, her colonies, possessions and protectorates, Germany, her colonies, possessions and protectorates, Great Britain, her colonies, possessions and protectorates, Greece, Guatemale, Haiti, Honduras, Italy, her colonies, possessions and protectorates, Japan, Liechtenstein, Liberia, Luxembourg Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, The Netherlands, her colonies, possessions and protectorates, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Panama, Paraguay, Persia, Peru, Portugal, her colonies, possessions and protectorates, Roumania, Russia, Salvador, Sºn Marino, Serbia, Siam, Spain, her colonies, -3- (827-3) - - - UNIVERSITY of MICHIGAN | I. |M §§§§673 8674 possessions and protectoretº, ºeden, 3.7itzerland., Turkey, Uruguay, or Venezuela, except under licenso grantod in accord- thod with regulations or orders &nd subject to such limitations and exceptions as have heretofore been, or shall hereafter be prescribed in pursuance of th9 powers conferred by said Act of October 6, 1917. The scid proclamation of November 29, 1917, and paragraºh III of the ozzecutive order of October 12, 1917, are hereby confirmed and continued and all rules and regulations heroto-ºore made in connection therewith or in pursuance thereox are likewise hereby ooznfirmed and continued and made a Yºlicable to this proclamation. Ill WITNESS THEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the see 1 of the United States of America to be aſ ſix:ed. ' Done in the District of Columbia, this 14th day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand (Seal) Iſine Hundred and Eighteen - and of the Independence of the United States of America the One Hundred and Forty- Second. ... ºOº. 1139N-- --- By the President, ------ Secretary of State (827-4)