Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 41 Part 2.djvu/324

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1760 PROCLAMATIONS, 1919. of wheat or wheat fiour, is hereby transferred to and vested in the United States Wheat Director as of Jul Ist, 1919. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be aiiixed this 24th dag of June, in the_year of our Lord 1919, [sum.] and of the indepen ence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-third. Woonaow Wmson By the President: FRANK L Pom: Acting Secretary ofStatc ... ° ”°’m°‘ PROCLAMATION ¤¤r}c°iZtyi'°m°°’ md WHEREAS, bg virtue of the authority vested in the President by $$_{‘§'g,f’,‘;;_¤' 1,,,, the Act approve June 15, 1917, known as the Espionage Act, the W4- President issued a proclamation dated Arxrst 27, 1917, which was amended by a subsequent proclamation ted September 7_h1917, grohrbiting the export of corn, bulhon currency from the mted tates or its temtorral possessions to certain s eciiied countries except at such time or_ tunes and under such I'Bg\1¥&lil0I1S and orders and subqict to (ouch limitations and exceptions as the President shall prescri · an WHEREAS, by virtue of the authority vested in the President by the above mentioned Act of Oongrew, the President by Executive order dated Sedptember 7, 1917, directed that the regulations, orders, limitations an exceptions prescribed by him in relation to the export of coin, bullion and currency should be administered by the Secretary of thetffreasmyi ond olpontgirs rolcommendation prescribed certain re%6la ions in re a ron ere ;an REAS, by Executive order d ted 0 tob 12 1917 d V°'·‘°·¥’· ‘“· under authority of the act aforesaid arid of the acliuapprbved (lcltrilseii 6, 1917, known as the '1`radn¥-with-the-Enemy Act, the_ President vested in the Secretary of the reasu the executive administration of any investigation, regulation or rldhibition of an transactions in foreiggeexchangggfexmgt, oriezarmarliing of(go%1d or sfiver coin, bullion orcu ncy, ra erso cre 1 man t th di I ‘ solely to transactions to be executediwholl gvitliin tlilyllicni tilmtiit . , Y te S tes and transfers of evidences of indebtedness or of the ownership of property between the United States and any fore' country or , etween residents of one or more foreign countrieslgty any person within the United States, and further vested in the Secretary of the Treasuryl the authority and power to require any person engaged in any suc transaction furnish, under oath, complete information relative thereto, mcluding the production of any liboks of account contracts, letters, or other papers in connection therewith in the cus; tody or fzrlggrol of} such person, either before or after such transaction is com e ; an WHEREAS, by said E f d d d President authorized andX<Iiiiicl:>(ii(i1lr:lSeci;di%ar_§*)(i>ti0l:)}(i; %eai§1i;y iii? the purpose of such executive administration to take such measures adopt such administrative procedure, and use such ncy or agencies

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