Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 38 Part 2.djvu/815

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PROCLAMATIONS, 1914. 2017 cases the authorities of the port or of the nearest port (as the case may be) shall recipire her to put to sea as soon as possible after the expiration of suc lperiod of twenty-four hours, without plermitting her to take in supp es beyond what may be necessary for er immediate use; and no such vessel which may have been permitted to remain within the waters of the United States for the purpose of repair shall continue within such port, harbor, roadstead, or waters for a longer giggriod than twenty-four hours after her necessary repairs shall have n completed, unless within such twenty-four hours a vessel, whether ship of war, grivateer, or merchant shipuof an opposing belligerent, shall have eparted therefrom, in w 'ch case the time limited for the departure of such ship of war or privateer shall be extended so far as may be necessary to secure an mterval of not less than twenty-four hours between such depa.rture and that of any ship of war, privateer, or merchant ship of an oplpuosing belligeront which may have plreviously quit the same port, bor, roadstead, or waters. No s `p of war or privateer of a belligerent shall be detained in any port, harbor, roadstead, or waters of the United States more than twenty-four hours, by reason of the successive departures from such port, harbor, roadstead, or waters of more than one vessel of an opposing belligerent. But if there be several vessels of cgpposing belhgerents in the same port, harbor, roadstead, or waters, e order of their departure therefrom shall be so arranged as to afford the opportunity of leaving alternately to the vessels of the op osing belligerents, and to cause the least detention consistent with the objects of this proclamation. No ship of war or privateer of a belligerent shall be tpgrxnitted, while in anty port, harbor, roadstead, or waters within jurisdiction of the mted States, to take in any supplies except provisions and such other things as may be r uisite or the subsistence of? her crew, and except so much coal oiiiy as ma be sufficient to carry such vessel, if with0ut any sail power, to dire nearest port of her own country; or in case the vessel is rigged to go under sail, and may also be propelled by steam_ power, then with half the quantity of coal which she would be entitled to receive, if dependent umm steam alone, and no_ coal shall be again supplied to an such s 'p of war or privateer m the same or any other port harbor, roadstead, or waters of the United States, without special permission, until after the expiration of three months from the time when such coal may have een last supplied to her within the waters of the United States, unless such ship of war or privateer shall, sine; lsilstggus supplied, have entered a port of the overnment to whic s e on . g And I do further declare ands proclaim that the statutes and the bjglgggumswry tv treaties of the United States and the law of nations alike require that no erson, within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States, shall take part, or mdirectgr, in the said wars but shall remain at eace with of the said elligerents, and shall maintain a strict and impartial neutrality. _ _ And I do hereby enjom all citizens of the United States, and all mjgtgigm M ¤¤··= ersons residing or being within the territory or jurisdiction of the ` United States, to observe the laws thereof, and to commit no act contrary to the provisions of the said statutes or treaties or in violation of the law of nations in that behalf. And I do hereby warn all citizens of the United States, and all pgp- m*;§;*;,*gh§{;*,,:{>°m¤· sons residin or being within its territory or jurisdiction that, w e ` the free and full expression of s_§mpathics in public and private is not restricted by the laws of the mted States, military forces in aid of a belligerent cannot lawfully be originated or gkranized within its bmi jurisdiction; and that, while all persons may la ully and without ,,,§°°"° °f W"' restriction by reason of the aforesaid state of war manufacture and