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 1690 PROCLAMATIONS, 1917. corporations and associations engaged in the business of manufacturing any products derived from wheat or age, (except those operating mills and manufacturing plants of a d y capacity of one hundred barrels or less, and farmers and cooperative association of farmers) are hereby required to secure on or before September lst, 191_7, a license, whiplh liceilise  lie éssued under suclg rules ang réegulations _ governing the con act o the usmess as may e rescribe. Ag¤qy,_§5*?§g$,§*,f° F°°d Apphcations for licenses must be made to the glmted States Food Aldministrator, Washington, D. C., upon forms prepared by him for t at purpose. m§gg3;*§}c*ggm°b*",§,*·aQ_§i _ Any person, firm, corporation or association, other than those heremgm 278 inbefore excepted, who shall engage H1, or carry on the business of " p' either storing or distributing wheat or rye as owners, lessees or operators of warehouses or elevators, or manufacturing any products derived from wheat owe after September 1st, 1917, without first ;1ch license, be liable to the penalties prescribed by said ct o s. IN0d fV¥`1H]%Rl§€(31F, I have éierefnépltol set my hand and caus tese ote ni Statesto ea e. Done in tl? Districti_f August in t e year o ur Lor ne thousand ine undred and [sun;] Seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the One Hundred and Forty-second. Woonnow Wn.soN By the President: Ronmzr LANSING Secretary of State. Br rim Pnrzsmrmr or- rim Uurrmn Sryrms or Amznrca. A PROCLAMATION. ,¤A“*,_Qf$,,§}§,“'{,r¥;°,,;§*;‘;*, WHEREAS it has become desirable more specihcally to define calgegmm the persons under suspended sentence in United States courts and _,m,"p_ ,;,,1 other persons, defendants in said courts, to whom pardon and ’ amnesty were extended by the Proclamation of the President of the `liFn1te<kSgtes which gras made and issued on the fourteenth day of une, . . 1917- an _ Whercas,, in acase entitled "Ex Barte United States, Petitioner," known as the Killits case, decided ecember 4, 1916, it was held by the Supreme Court of the‘United States that United States District {pdgesf have; no authority to suspend sentence or the imposition iereo : am Whereas, many judges did not claim such power and others both Clil·lK110(l·l`|]1(l exercised it, with the result that there was a lack of uniformity in the adrmnistration of the criminal laws, and a large nu;nbc;rCof persoms vgho had begn cpinvicted and were required by ac s o ‘on¤ress o e sentence an committed had osca ed - ishment without legal disposition of their cases; and P Pun Wi1_ereas, in many instances, defendants in such courts, who had been improperly at large for a_ number of years, under the circumstances Qecitedil had trieestaiphsclied (tihemselves in the respective commum ies w erem ey ve ; an thsgfhiexxil) the opject gftitlhe aforesaid Proclaim;tion_ was toifmegti - n jus y an e amnes .y pro e erem was ni such defendants imd each of them witlixiiference to that(i>b?ect a one;