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 1700 PROCLAMATIONS, 1917. ,,§,,’f,*§“‘i““**°°’ °·" nothing herein contained shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to therea ter approrner settlement priating them in accordance herewith. Persons having prior settle- ’*¤"‘s· ment rights or preferences, as above defined, will be allowed to make entry in accordance with existing law and regulations. “°°““°""°d· It is not intended by this proclamation to reserve any lands not immediately heretofore embraced in a national forest, nor to exclude any lands excgipt the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram hereto annexe. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia this twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine [SEAL.] hundred and seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-second. Woonnow WILSON. By the President: FRANK L. Pom: ` Acting Secretary of Stale. °°*°*’°*8·m"- BY mm Pnnsmmrr or Tim Unrmn Srxrns or Amnmca. A PROCLAMATION. mgggggge ¤ff¤¤·1¤¤¤¤- WHEREAS, Under and bfy virtue of an Act of Congress entitled msmiae. "An Act to provide further or the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution o food products and fue ," approved by the President pnuthe 10th day of August, 1917, it is provided among other things as o ows: §°{§°j‘*{,"’§§§,‘°"i"*°"“· "That, by reason of the existence of a state of war, it is essential ' ` to the national security and defense, for the successful prosecution of the war, and for the support and maintenance of the Army and Navy, to assure an adequate supply and equitable distribution, and to facilitate the movement, of foods, feeds, fuel including fuel oil and natural gas, and fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients, tools, utensils, implements, machinery, and eclpipment required for the actual production of foods, feeds, and fuel, ereafter in this Act called necessaries; to prevent, locally or generallygscarcity, monopolization, hoarding, injurious speculatmn, manipulations, and private controls, affecting such supp y, distribution, and movement; and to establish and maintain governmental control of such necessaries during the war. For such purposes the instrumentalities, means, methods, powers, authorities, duties, obligations, and prohibitions hereinafter set forth are created, established, conferred and prescribed. The President is authorized to make such regulations and to issue such orders as are essential effectivel to carry out the provisions of this Act." . AND W'HEREAg; It is further provided in said Act as follows: Ame-¤FT· "That, from time to time, whenever the President shall find it essential to license the importation, manufacture, storage, mining or distribution, of any necessaries, in order to carry into effect any of th;-upur;poses of this Act, and shall publicly so announce, no person sh, a ter a date Exed in the announcement, engage in or carry on any such business specified in the announcement of importation. manufacture, storage, mining, or distribution of any necessaries as set forth in such announcement, unless he shall secure and hold a license issued pursuant to this section. The President is authorized to issue such licenses and to prescribe regulations for the issuance of