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 1772 PROCLAMATIONS, isis. Reserve Banks. Let the Nation’s reslponse to the_Th1rd Liberty Loan e ress in unmistakable terms the determination of America to iightxfhr peace, the permanent peace of justice. _ Holiday ¤11¤w¤<1. For the purpose of participating in Liberty Day celebrations, all F°d°'°' °‘“"*°"°""" employees of the Federal Govemment throughout the country whose services can be spared, may be excuse at twelve o’clo<; noon, Frida, the twenty-sixth of April. IN WITNESS WI-HIREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. _ _ DONE in the District of Columbia, this eighteenth day of April, m the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and [SEAL.] Eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the One Hundred and Forty-Second. Woonnow WILSON By tlI1§)PresidIep&t: mnrr Nemo, Secretary of State. BY ·rm: Pnmsmmwr or rim Unrrmn Sratrms or Aumuca. ' A PROCLAMATION. ·4v¤¢,p.5k1. April, one thousand nine hunndied and eighteen, entitled "An Act to amend section four thousand and sixty-seven qi the Revised Statutes by extending its scope to include women", the said section four thousand and sixty-seven of the Revised Statutes is amended swam H to read as follows: _ _ n. s., we iw, p. Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and ’“*·“““'°'“d°°‘· any foreign nation or overnment, or any invasion or predatory incursion is pe etratedi attempted, or threatened against the territory of the U-'iiited States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes pu lic proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or ovemment, bein of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who 51all be within theIJnited States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be alpprehended, restrained, secured, and removed,.as alien enemies T e President is authorized, in any such event, by his clamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to Bhoobserved, on the part of the United States, toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject, and in what cases, and u on what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provid)e for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to d¢?>art therefrom; and to establish any other regulations which are ound necessary in the premises and for the public safety, R%»¤7g5<¤-406840*0- WHEREAS, by sections four thousand and sixty-eight, four pp" ' thousand and sixty-nine, and four thousand and seventy, of the Revised Statutes, further provision is made relative to alien enemies; —4¤¢¢,¤¤·1¤50,¤=’9· AND WHEREAS a state of war has heretofore been declared and proclaimed to exist between the United States and the Im erial German Government and between the United States and the {mperial and Ro al Austro·H arian Government; €<{j¤§<i§§t(5¢¤i¤i§_$d&;{; NOW, 'l'HEREFORE:m§ WOODROW WILSON, President of X;;¤0-n';§°§ari¤¤ the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the ’ ` the said sections of the evised Statutes, d0 hereby further roclaim and direct that the conduct to be observed on the part ofp the
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