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 2010 PROCLAMATIONS, 1914. the territory or Jurisdiction of the United States against the territories or dominions 0 either of the said belhgerents. _ N"§_"'”°'“ °' "°" And I do hereby further declare and proclaim that any frequentt1.;i§ u§w¤¤¤=I I I I ¤¤» *¤ and use of the waters within the territorial jurisdiction of the Um States by the armed vessels of a belligerent, whether public ships or privateers, for the purpose of preparing for hostile operations, or as posts of observation upon the ships of war or privateers or merchant vessels of a belligerent lying within or being about to enter the jurisdiction of the United States, must. be regarded as unfriendly and offensive, and in violation of that neutrality which it is the determination of this government to observe; an to the end that the hazard and inconvenience of such apprehended practices may be avoided, I further proclaim and declare that from and after the fourteenth day of August instant, and dming the continuance of the resent hostihties, no ship of war or privateer of any belligerent shall be permitted to make use of any 8'ort, harbor, roadstea, or waters subject to the jurisdiction of the nited States from which a vessel of an opposing belligerent (whether the same shall be a  of war, a privateer, or a merchant ship) shall have previously eparted, until after the expiration of at least twenty- our homs from the departure of such last·mentioned vessel beyond the jurisdiction of the United States. If any ship of war- or privateer of a belligerent shall, after the time this notification takes effect, enter any rt, harbor, roadstead, or waters of the United States, such vesselposhall be required to depart and to put to sea within twenty-four hours after her entrance into such port, harbor, roadstead, or waters, except in case of stress of weather or of her requiring provisions or  necessary for the subsistence of her crew, or for repairs; in any of which cases the authorities of the port or of the nearest port (as the case may be) shall  her to put to sea as soon as possible after the expiration of su  of twenty-·four hours, without rmitting her to take in supp es beyond what may be necessary forhter 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 eriod than twenty-four hours after her necessary repairs shall have liieen completed, unless within such twenty-four hours a vessel, whether ship of war, privateer, or merchant shi of an opposing belhgerent, shall have departed therefrom, in which 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 departure and that of any ship of war, pnvateer, or merchant ship of an o posing belligerent which may have Blplreviously quit the same rt, lharbor, roadstead, or waters: No 'p of war or privateer oima belligerent shall be detained m 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 cgposing belhgerents in the 881118 port, harbor, roadstead, or waters, e order of therr de arture therefrom shall be so arranged as to afford the opportunity oi leaving alternately to the vessels of the opposing belhgerents, and to cause the least detention consistent with the_ objects of this proclamation. No ship of Wal' or privateer of a. belligerent shall be permitted, while in an port, harbor, roadstead, or waters within the jurisdiction of the Iimted States, to take m any supplies except provisions and such other  as may be rcgquisite or the subsistence of her crew, and except so much coal o y as may be sufficient to carry such vessel, if without any sail power, to the nearest port of her own country; or in case the vessel