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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1917. 1729 shall be produced in the United States containing more than two and three-quarters per cent (2.75%) of alcohol by weight. _ No person shall, after January 1, 1918, use any foods, fruits, food §;;,°gg§,°° ’,$§‘*}'m?g°§’,{ materials or feeds in the production of malt liquor, unless he secures ii¤c¤¤al¤E<1¤<>¤· a license so to do, to be issued by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and complies with rules and regulations to be hereafter promulgated governing the production of such liquor and the alcoholic content thereof; and no Bgerson shall import any such liquor except under license to -be issu by the Division of Customs, Treasury Department, and in compliance with any rules and regulations governin thegénéportation of such liquors which may be promulgated. IN_ WITN WHEREOF I have hereunto set my han and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed; DONE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, this eighth da of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand, ltline [san.,] Hnmdred and Seventeen, and of the Indeipgndence of the Uniteg States of America the One Hun d and Forty- secon. Woonaow Winsor: By the President: · Rosnnr Lausmo Secretary of State. Br rmi Parzsrmxms or Inn Urrrrmn  Anmntca. A PROCLAMATION;,_. R  _· ‘ 1 — WHEREAS the Congress of the United States in the exercise of ¤y,§.r,Ym‘ "“°"'* the constitutional authority vested in them have resolved, by joint P'°°¤“°· resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives bearing date of December 7th, 1917, as follows: _ "Wl1ereas the Imperial and Royal Austro-Himgarian Govern- """* "· ‘”‘ ment has committed retpreated acts of war against the Government and the geo le of the nited States of America: Therefore be it "RES L8ED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem led, That a state of war is hereby declared to exist between the United States of America and the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government; and that the resident be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military fiorces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Implerial and Royal Austro—Hungarian Govemment; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States." VVHEREAS, by Sections four thousand and sixty-seven, four thou- ,,,.f5§;; §’· ‘°°""”°· sand and sixty-eight, four thousand and sixty-nine, and four thousand and seventy, of the Revised Statutes, provision is made relative to natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of a hostile nation or ovemment, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwargs, who shall be in the United States and not actually naturalized; New, Tnmmroim, 1, Woonnow WILSON, President of the ,,,1§,f’§’,’{*F,l’,°’,2’I,;‘$;T"" United States of America, do hereby proclaim to all whom it may concern that a state of war exists etween the United States and the Imperial and Royal Austro—Hungarian Government; and I do specially direct all officers, civil or military, of the United States t at they exercise vigilance and zeal in the discharge of the duties incident to such a state of war; and I do, moreover, earnestly appeal to all American citizens that they, in loyal devotion to their country, 12080S°—vor. 40, rr 2--27