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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1914; 2023 the territory or {jurisdiction of the United States against the territorié or dommions o either of the said belligerents. · X And I do hereby furthendeclare and proclaim. that any frequentitgg  °' ”°" and use of the waters within the territorial jurisdiction of the Uni I I   l“m¤¤» ¤¤ States by the armed vessels of a belligerent, whether public ships or ` pnvateers, for the purpose of pre aring for hostile operations, or as posts of observation upon the ships of war or privateers or merchantyessels of a belhgerent 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; and to the end that the hazard and mconvemence of such apprehended practices may be avoided, I further proclaim and declare that from and after the twenttgg seventh day of August instant, and during the continuance of present hostilities, no ship of war or privateer of any belligerent shall e permitted to make use of any ort, harbor, roadstea, or waters · subject to the jurisdiction of the United 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 hours from the departure of such last-mentioned vessel beyon the jurisdiction of the United States. If any ship of waryor privateer of a belligerent shall, after the time this notification takes effect, enter any lport, harbor, roadstead, or waters of the United States, such vesse shall be required to depart and to put to sea within twenty··four hours after her entrance into such port, harbor, roadstead, or wate1s,#except·in.case · of stress of weather or of her requiring provisionsor thing necessary for the subsistence of her crew, or for repairs; in·any-of iwhich. cases the authorities of the port or of the neared- portiasthe-case may be) shall uire her to put to sea as socnas pbssibleiafter the expiration of srnihgi eriod of twentyfour hours, without her to take in supplies 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 period than twenty-four hours after her necessary repairs shall have been completed, unless within such twent_y—four hours a vessel, whether ship of war, privateer, or merchant slupuof 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 interval of not less than twenty-four hours between such departure and that of any ship of war, privateer, or merchant ship of an opposing belségerent which may have reviously quit the same port, arbor, ro tead, or waters. No ship 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 0 posing belhlgerents in the same port, harbor, roadstead or wateis, the order of t cir 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- permitted, while m anly port, harbor, roadstead, or waters within the 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 olily as maly be sufficient to carry such vessel, if without any sail ` power, to the 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,