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 1650 1>nocLArMA·r1oNs, 1917. Agent duly authorized by the Government of Denmark to receive the mone ; V°1‘°"°'p‘u33‘ AIU) WHEREAS, by Section 8 of the said Act of Congress alpproved March 3, 1917, the fact and date of such payment shall e made public by a lproclamation issued by the President and published _ in the said Danis West Indian Islands and in the United States. '°' °°“°” NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and publish that the sum of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) has this day been paid to the authorized Agent of His Majesty the Kmg of Denmark in full consideration of the cession of the Danish West Indian Islands to the United States made by the Convention between the United States of America and His Majesty the King of Denmark, concluded August 4 1916. IN TESTIMONY, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the Cit of Washington this 31st day of March in the year of our &rd one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, [SEAL.] and of the Inde endence of the United States of America, the one hundred) and forty-first. Woonnow WILSON By the President: Roamrr Lrmsme, Secretary of State. Br rim Pnmsrnnxr or run Umrnn Smrns or Arrnmca A PROCLAMATION. ¥gm"{*,g G¤'¤”*¤Y- WHEREAS the Congress of the United States in the exercise of the am, p. 1`. constitutional authority vested in them have resolved, by joint resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives bearing datethis da "That the state of War between the United States and the Imperial, German Government which has * * been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared"; P"S··“°°‘°°°7""7°°‘ WHEREAS it is govided by Section four thousand and sixty- seven of the Revised tatutes, as follows: Whenever there is declared a war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by anyl foreign nation or government, and the President makes pub `c proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be ap rehended, restrained, secured, and removed, as alien enemies. Hfhe President is authorized, in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed, on the part o the United States, toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be sulgilect, and in what cases, and ulpon what security their residence sh be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regulations which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety; D R;;;;·g·4*·*>$—*¤7<>· WHEREASL by Sections four thousand and sixty-eivht, imn- ·p' ‘ ’ ‘ thousand and sixty-nine, and four thousand and seventv, of, the Revised Statutes, further provision is made relative to alien enemies,