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 PROGLAMATION S, 1918. 1749 heretofore been, or shall hereafter be prescribed in pursuance of the F I powers conferred by said Act of October 6, 1917. The said proclama- ti0,f‘QT§f c0¤%l§°§Q'£1”` tion- of November 28, 1917, and paragraph III of the executive order -**7% P· mk of October 12, 1917, are hereby confirmed and continued and all rules and regulations heretofore made in connection therewith or in pursuance thereof are likewise hereby connrmed and continued and made a licable to this roclamation. IN VEITNESS WHEIFEOF, I have hereunto set 1;1i%Xhand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be ed. Done in the District of Columbia, this 14th dlayy of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand ine Nundred and [sam.,] Eighteen and of the Independence of the United States of America the One Hundred and Forty-Second. Woonnow WrLs0N By the President, Ronmrr Lnxsme, Secrefary of State. BY mn Pnnsmmrr or rnn Uurrnn S·rA·rns or Aumuca A PROCLAMATION _ WHEREAS, Under and bfy virtue of an Act of Congress entitled misc. "An Act to piovide flurther or the nation;} secuprity ang defense by ·""°» P· *3*8- encour· the ro uction, cons the su, an contro1lmg' the dismtion oiliood products and fuel/’ gpprgveld by the President on the 10th day of August, One Thousand ine Hundred and Seventeen, it is provided among other things as follows: _ NSec. 14. That whenever the President shall find that an grllatiiiglymlilcvklom emergency exists requiring stimulation of the production of wheat and that it is essential that the producers of wheat, produced within the United States, shall have the benefits of the guaranty provided for in this section, he is authorized, from time to time, seasonably and as far in advance of seeding time as practicable, to determine and fix and to give public notice of what under specified conditions, is a reasonable guaranteed rice for wheat, in order to assure such producers a reasonable {profit. The President shall thereupon fix such guaranteed price or each of the official ggain standards for wheat as establis ed under the United States rain Standards Act approved An theleventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen. The President shall iudlm time to time establish and promulgate such regulations as he shall deem wise in connection with such guaranteed prices, and in particular governing conditions of delivery and payment, and differences in price for the several standard grades in the principal rimary markets of the United States, adoariting number one northern s ring or its equivalent at the princip interior rimarymarketsasdhe basis. Thereupon, the Government of the United States hereby arantees every producer of wheat produced within the United §tiites that upon compliance by him with the re§lations prescribed, he shall receive for any wheat produced in r `ance upon this guarantee within the period, not exceeding) eighteen months, ggescribed in the notice, a price not less than the guaranteed price therefor as fixed pursuant to this section. In such regulations the President shall prescribe the terms and conditions upon which any such producer shall be entitled to the benefits of such guaranty. The guaranteed prices for the several standard grades of wheat for the crop of nineteen hundred and eighteen shall be based upon number one northern