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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1915. 1759 11. Beginning or setting on foot or providing or preparing the ` means for any military! expedition or ente rise to be carried on from the territory or juris `ction of the Uniteld) States against the territories or dominions of any of the said belligerents. And I do hereby further declare and proclaim that any frequenf ug§,‘§,°,f,Y°"s°‘“ °' "°" and use of the waters within the territorial jurisdiction of the Unitudd t°R•¤¢rdi§¢i<¤¤ ¤¤· i¤ States by the armed vessels of a belligerent, whether public ships or mm Inn"` privateers, for the prupose of preparing for hostile operations, or as posts of observation upon the ships of war or rivateers or merchant vessels of a bell§erent  within or being agent to enter the jruisdiction of the nited tates, must be arded as unfriendly and offensive, and in violation of that neutrrziglity which it is the determination of this government to observe; and 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 eleventh of November, instant, and during the continuance of the resent hostilities, no ship of war or privateer of any belligerent shall be permitted to make use of any port, harbor, roadstead or other waters within the jurisdiction of the United States as a station or place of resort for any warlike p1u·p0se or for the urpose of obtaimng any facilities of warlike equipment; and no ship of war or privateer of any belligerent shall be permitted to sail out of or leave an port harbor, roadstead, or waters subject to the jurisdiction of the lrlnited States from which a vessel of an opposing belligerent (whether the same shall be a ship of war, a jirivateer, or a merchant ship) shall have previously departed, unti after the expiration of at least ~ twenty-four hours 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 port, harbor, roadstead, or waters of the United States, such vessel shall be rerguired to depart and to put. to sea within twenty-four hours after er entrance into such rt, harbor, roadstead, or waters, except in case of stress of weatggr or of her requiring provisions or things necessary for the subsistence of her crew, or for repairs; in any 0 which cases the authorities of the port or of the nearest port (as the case may be) shall require her to put to sea as soon as ssible after the expiration of such period of twenty- four hours, vvitgfbut permittinglher to take in supp ies beyond what may be necessary for er imme `ate use; and no suc 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 been completed, unless within such twenty-four hours a vessel, whether ship of war, privateer, or merchant ship of an opposing belligerent, shall have dqparted therefrom, in which case the time limited for the departure o such ship of war or privateer shall be extended sofar as may be necessa? to secure an interval of not less than twenty-four hours between suc departure and that of any ship of war, privateer, or merchant ship of an opposing belli erent which may have previously quit the same port, arbor, roaritead, or waters. No ship of war or(£r1vateer of a belligerent shall be detained in any port, harbor, roa tead, 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 ne vessel of an opposmgqbelligerent. But if there be several vessgls of o posing belligerents in the same port, harbor, roadstead. or waters, gre order of their_departu.re therefrom shall be so arraneed as to afford the opportunity of leaving alternateliy to the vessels of the opposing belligerents, and to cause the least etention