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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1915. 1745 erent (whether the same shall be a ship of war, a privateer, or a merchant ship) shall have previously departed, until after the expiration of at least twenty-four hours from the departure of such lastmentioned vessel beyond the tjurisdiction of the United States. If any ship_ of .war or privateer 0 a belligerent shall, after the time this notihcation takes e ect, enter an ort, harbor, roadstead, or waters of the United States, such vesselysliall be re uired to depart and to put to sea within twenty-four hoius after (her entrance into such port, harbor, roadstead, or waters, except in case of stress of weather or of her requiring provisions or thin necessary for the subsistence of her crew, or for repairs; in any ofgs which cases the authorities of the port or of the nearest port (as the case may be) shall re uire her to put to sea as soon as possible after the expiration of sudl:1 period of twenty-four hours, without ermitting her to take in supplies beyond what may be necessary For her immediate use; and no such vessel which may have been permitted to remain within the waters of the United States for the urpose of re air shall continue within such port, harbor, roadsteacl: or waters lor a longpr period than. twentiy-four hoius after her necessary repairs shall ave been complete, imless within such twenty-four hours a. vessel, whether shi of war, privateer, or merchant shi of an opposing belligerent, shag have departed therefrom, in which case the time imite 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 0 posing belligerent which mag have previously quit the same ort, harhor, roadstead, or waters. 0 ship of war or privateer of a gelligerent shall be detained in any port, harbor, roadstead, or waters of the United States more than twenty-four hours, b reason of the successive departures from such port harbor, roadstead; or waters of more than one vessel of an 0 posing t. But if there be several vessels of op osing belhgerents in the same ort, harbor, roadstead, or waters, tlie order of their departure thereliom shall be so arranged as to afford the o rtunity of leaving alternately to the vessels of the opposing bdlligerents, and to cause the least detention consistent wit the objects of this [proclamation. No ship of war or privateer of a belhgerent shall e permitted, while in an port, harbor, roadstead, or waters within the jurisdiction of the `lUnited States, to take in any supplies except provisions and such other things as may be requisite for the subsistence of her crew, and except so much coal only 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 is rigged to go under sa, and may also be propelled by steam power, then with half the quantity 0 coal which she would be entitled to receive if dependent upon steam alone, and no coal shall be again supplied to any such ship of war or privateer in the same or any other port, harbor, roadstea_, or waters of the United States, wit out splecial permission, until after the expiration of three months from the time when such coal mag have been last supplied to her within the waters of the United tates, unless such ship of war or privateer shall, since last thus supplied, have entered a port of the government to which she belongs. _ _ And I do further declare and proclaim that the statutes and the ,,°S‘,,§‘,,‘§f,,,{‘,,°,;‘f,T““" “’ treaties of the United States and the law of nations alike require that no erson, within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States, sliall take part, directly or indirectly, in the said wars, but shall remain at peace with al of the said belhgerents, and shall maintain a strict and impartial neutralitfy. And I do hereby enjoin all citizens 0 the United States, and all ,_,,§{,l§‘g§Y““°° °‘ bm persons residing or being within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, to observe the laws thereof, and to commit no act