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 rRooLAMA*r1oNs, 1917. 1731 such other officer as the President shall dejlinate, and to confinement in such penitentiary, prison, jail, `tary camp, or other place of detention as may be directed by the President. This proclamation and the regulations herein contained shall extend dm °U°"’*“°**°" and apply to all land and water, continental or insular, in any way within the `urisdiction of the United States. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereimto set my hand and caused the seal of tle United States to be aflixed. DONE in the District of Columbia, this eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [snail] seventeen, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-second. - Wooimow WILSON By the President: Ronmrr Larzsmo Secretary of State. Br rim Pizmsmmxr or rm-: Urzrmn Srarns or Amzmcn A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, By the Urgent Deficiency Act, approved October 6, ,,,§{,$’,{'“‘°° "°"‘* 1917 (Pub. No. 64, 65th Cong.), an aplpgopriation of $7,000,000 was _1;;•g¤¤*•· 352 lm made for increasing the facilities for t proof and test of 0l‘dD·8D·¢H ’ pp` ` material including necessary buildings, construction, equipment,. land, and damzggs and losses to persons, firms and corporations resulting from procurement of the land for this purppse; and also the salaries and expenses of any agents appointed to assist in the procurement of said land, or damages resulting from its taking; AND WHEREAS, B said act it is further provided as follows: ,,,:,_°"°"°°” "‘°‘°"'* "That if the land and appurtenances and improvements attached thereto, as contemplated under the foregoing appropriation, can not be dprocured by purchase, then the President is hereby authorized an empowered to take over for the United States the immediate possession and title, including all easements, rights of way, rilplarian and other rights appurtenant thereto, or any land selected by `m to be used for the  out of the purpose named in the aforesaid appropriation. That i said land and appurtenances and iglnlprovements shall be taken over as aforesaid the United States sh make just compensation therefor, to be determined liyrthe President, and if the amount thereof, so determined by the esident, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-Eve per centum of the amount so determmed by the President and shall e entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum, as, added to the said seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, ph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Ju de. Upon the taking over of said prpperty by the President as aforesaid the title to all such propert · so t ·en over shall immediately vest in the United States: rovfided further, That section three hundred and fifty-Eve R·s··’°°·““·P·°°· of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not apply to the explenditures authorized hereunder? D I I. onub 1 OW, THEREFORE, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of in liarglandnscxry the United States of America, pursuant to the authority vested m ’ me by_ the said act of Congress, do hereby order and declare that the P¤—**· P- imfolloyving described tract of land is necessary for the purposes specified in said appropriation, namely, all lands within metes and bounds