San Marino, Serbia, Siam, Spain, her colonies, possessions, or protectorates; Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezuela, or Turkey.

The orders and regulations from time to time prescribed will be administered by and under the authority of the Secretary of Commerce, from whom licenses, in conformity with the said orders and regulations, will issue.1

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington this 9th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1917 and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-first.

[SEAL.]

By the President:

FRANK L. POLK.

WOODROW WILSON.

Proclamation prohibiting export of all articles, February 14, 1918. [Official Bulletin, No. 235, p. 2; W. T. B. Journ. 7: 4.]

EXPORTS PROCLAMATION.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas Congress has enacted and the President has, on the 15th day of June, 1917, approved a law which contains the following provisions:

Whenever during the present war the President shall find that the public safety shall so require, and shall make proclamation thereof, it shall be unlawful to export from or ship from or take out of the United States to any country named in such proclamation.

1 Procedure in applying for licenses:

The Secretary of Commerce, William C. Redfield, made the following announcement with reference to the procedure to be adopted by exporters in the United States in applying for export license.

First, applications for license may be made by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Division of Export Licenses, 1435 K Street, Washington, D. C., or to any of the branches of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce-New York, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Seattle.

Second, in applying for a license to export any of the commodities covered by the President's proclamation, applicants should give the following information in triplicate form:

a. Quantity.

b. Description of goods.

c. Name and address of consignee.

d. Name and address of consignor.

Third, the license will be good for only 60 days and at the expiration of that time must be renewed, and if not shipped within that time a new application must be made. Fourth, the various branch offices of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce have been given full instructions as to the disposition of all applications for licenses. It is the desire of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to minimize the exporter's difficulties as much as possible, and therefore wherever practicable the district offices will be authorized to issue the licenses. It is thought, however, that many of the applications may have to be forwarded to Washington for decision.

In case exporters desire they may telegraph their applications direct to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Division of Export Licenses, 1435 K Street, Washington, D. C.

(Official Bulletin, No. 50, p. 3, W. T. B., Rules and Reg., No. 1, p. 7.)

any article or articles mentioned in such proclamation, except at such time or times, and under such regulations and 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 preference shall be given to the ports of one State over those of another.

And whereas the President has heretofore by proclamations dated July 9, 1917, August 27, 1917, September 7, 1917, and November 28, 1917, declared certain exports in time of war unlawful, and the President now finds that the public safety requires that such proclamations be amended and supplemented in respect to the articles and countries hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United 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, ammunition, 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, machines used in their manufacture or repair, component parts thereof, materials or ingredients used in their manufacture, and all instruments, articles, and animals necessary or convenient for their use; all means of communication, tools, implements, instruments, equipment, maps, pictures, papers, and other articles, machines, and documents necessary or convenient 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, dyestuffs, and tanning materials; cotton, wool, silk, flax, hemp, jute, sisal and other fibers 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 nonedible 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 oils, ores, and all derivatives and manufactures thereof; paper pulp, books, and all printed matter and material necessary or convenient for their manufacture; rubber, gums, rosins, tars, and waxes, their products, derivatives, and substitutes, and all articles containing them; wood and wood manufactures; coffee, cocoa, tea, and spices; wines, spirits, mineral waters, and beverages; and all other articles of any kind whatsoever shall not, on and after the 16th day of February, in the year 1918, be exported from, or shipped from, or taken out of the United States or its Territorial possessions to Abys sinia, Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, her colonies, possessions, and protectorates, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, her colonies, possessions, and protectorates, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, France, her colonies, possessions, and protectorates, Germany, her colonies, possessions, and protectorates, Great Britain, her colonies, possessions, and

protectorates, Greece, Guatemala, 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, San Marino, Serbia, Siam, Spain, her colonies, possessions, and protectorates, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay, or Venezuela, except under license granted in accordance with regulations or orders and subject to such limitations and exceptions as have heretofore been, or shall hereafter be prescribed in pursuance of the powers conferred by said act of June 15, 1917. The said proclamations of July 9, 1917, August 27, 1917, September 7, 1917, and November 28, 1917, and paragraph II of the Executive order of October 12, 1917, are hereby confirmed and continued and all rules and regulations heretofore made in connection therewith or in pursuance thereof are likewise hereby confirmed and continued and made applicable to this proclamation.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

Done in the District of Columbia, this 14th day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighteen and of the Independence of the United States of America the One Hundred and Forty-Second.

By the President:

ROBERT LANSING,

Secretary of State.

WOODROW WILSON.

Proclamation prohibiting import of all articles, February 14, 1918.1 (Official Bulletin, No. 235, p. 2; W. T. B., Journ. 7: 10.)

IMPORTS PROCLAMATION.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLA

MATION.

Whereas Congress has enacted, and the President has, on the sixth day of October. 1917, approved a law which contains the following provisions:

Whenever during the present war the President shall find that the public safety so requires and shall make proclamation thereof it shall be unlawful to import into the United States from any country named in such proclamation any article or articles mentioned in such proclamation except 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 preference shall be given to the ports of one State over those of another.

A proclamation of November 28, 1917, prohibited the import of certain commodities unless licensed by the War Trade Board. (W. T. B., Journ. 2:1.) Regulations for the importation of specified materials, and for importation from specified countries have been pubished, W. T. B., Rules and Reg., No. 2, pp. 67, 69.

And, whereas, the President has heretofore by proclamation dated November 28, 1917, declared certain imports in time of war unlawful, and the President now finds that the public safety requires that such proclamation be amended and supplemented in respect to the articles and countries hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United 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, ammunition, 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, machines used in their manufacture or repair, component parts thereof, materials or ingredients used in their manufacture, and all instruments, articles, and animals necessary or convenient for their use; all means of communication, tools, implements, instruments, equipment, maps, pictures, papers, and other articles, machines, and documents necessary or convenient 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, dyestuffs, and tanning materials; cotton, wool, silk, flax, hemp, jute, sisal, and other fibers 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 nonedible 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 oils, ores, and all derivatives and manufactures thereof; paper pulp, books, and all printed matter, and materials necessary and convenient for their manufacture; rubber, gums, rosins, tars, and waxes, their products, derivatives, and substitutes, and all articles containing them; wood and wood manufactures; coffee, cocoa, tea, and spices; wines, spirits, mineral waters, and beverages; and all other articles of any kind whatsoever, shall not, on and after the 16th day of February, in the year 1918, be imported into the United States or its territorial possessions from Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, her colonies, possessions, and protectorates; Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, her colonies, possessions, and protectorates; Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, France, her colonies, possessions, and protectorates; Germany, her colonies, possessions, and protectorates; Great Britain, her colonies, possessions, and protectorates; Greece, Guatemala, 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, pos

sessions, and protectorates; Roumania, Russia, Salvador, San Marino, Serbia, Siam, Spain, her colonies, possessions, and protectorates; Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay, or Venezuela, except under license granted in accordance with regulations or orders and subject to such limitations and exceptions as have heretofore been, or shall hereafter be, prescribed in pursuance of the powers conferred by said act of October 6, 1917. The said proclamation of November 28, 1917, and paragraph 111 of the Executive order of October 12, 1917, are hereby confirmed and continued and all rules and regulations heretofore made in connection therewith or in pursuance thereof are likewise hereby confirmed and continued and made applicable to this proclamation.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

Done in the District of Columbia this 14th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-second. WOODROW WILSON.

By the President:

ROBERT LANSING,

Secretary of State.

NAVIGATION REGULATIONS.

Regulation refusing license to sailing vessel in war zone, September 29,

1917.1

[W. T. B., Journ. 1:7; Rules and Reg. No. 2, p. 45.]

The War Trade Board, in accordance with request made by the United States Shipping Board and by the Navy Department, has instructed the Director of the Bureau of Export Licenses not to grant licenses for any proposed shipments by sailing vessel going through the war zone. It is, of course, obvious that steamers can navigate the war zone with less danger than slow sailing craft, and sailing ships, if used in safer waters, would to an extent release steam vessels now used in such waters.

The attention of shippers is therefore called to the fact that clearance will be refused sailing vessels destined to proceed through the war zone,

1 In view of the cessation of hostilities, the War Trade Board on Nov. 21, 1918, announced that previous restrictions upon the voyages of sailing vessels and auxiliary motor vessels in the so-called "submarine danger zone" have been modified so as to include in the prohibited area only the waters north of the Bay of Biscay, or, in other words, all waters north of 43 degrees 40 minutes north latitude and east 12 degrees west longitude. Additional modifications will be announced from time to time as the waters Included within the above-defined area are reported as having been cleared of mines. It will be observed that the prohibitions hitherto applicable against sailing vessels and auxiliary motor vessels proceeding into the Mediterranean and ports south of the Bay of Biscay are hereby removed. (W. T. B. R. 336. Journ. 16:29.)