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 1778 rnoonrrmrrons isis. issued pursuant to this section. The President is authorized to issue such licenses and to prescribe regulations for the issuance of licenses and requirements for systems of accounts and auditing of accounts to be kept by licensees, submission of reports by them, with or without oath or affirmation, and the entry and inspection by the President’s duly authorized agents of the places of usiness of licensees; And whereas it is essential, in order to carry into effect the purposes of said Act and in order to secure an adequate supply and equitable distribution and to facilitate the movement of certain necessaries hereafter in this roclamation specified, that the license powers conferred uporir-I the %esidentf by lpaid Act be at this time exercised to the extent erein ter set ort ; rriiiiiii Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States °,§‘}‘°§ ;f“* of America, by virtue of the gowersconferred on me by said Act of Congress, do hereby find and etermme, and by this proclamation do announce, that it rs essential, in orderéto carry into effect the purposes of said Act, to license the importation, manufacture, storage, and distribution of certain necessaries, hereinafter called farm e uipment, including attachments and repair parts thereof, required for farm use in the actual production of foods and feeds, as follows: D°°°'*P“°"· binders, boilers, brooders, brmchers, carriers, carts, cleaners, covers, crushers, cultivators, diggers, distributors, drills, elevators, evaporators, fencing, for es, for, formtains, gates, graders, grinders, grindstones, harrows, Earvesters, headers, hrllers, bitches, hullers, huskers, incubators, jacks, listers, loaders, markers, milkers, mills, mowers, pens, pickers, planters, plows, powers, presses, pullers, pulleys, pulverizers, pum s, racks, rakes, rollers, scales, seeders, separators, shellers, shrediders, silos, sleds, slings, sorters, sewers, sprayers, spreaders, stalls, stanchions, tanks, tedders, testers, threshers, towers, tractors, trailers, tro hs, trucks, w ns, weeders, weighers, windmills and all other tdbls, utensils, imiggments, and machinery, B re<2u{lred for farm use in the actual production of foods and feeds. individuals, partnerships, associations, and corporations engaged in the business of importin , manufacturing, storing, or distri uting the said farm equipment gsxceptthose specifically exempted by said Act of Congress), are hereby required to secure licenses on or before June 20, 1918, which will be issued under such rules and regulatipns gqivgrning the conduct of the business as may be prescribed Aammmmzmu me- lm GT SN 0% §¤ér¤gm¤ymSw¤¤w ¤f The Secretary of Agriculture shall carry into effect the provisions ` of said Act, an shall supervise and direct the exercise of the powers and authority thereby given to the President, as far as the same a ply to the said farm eqmpment, and to any and all practices, procerlirre, and regulations applicable thereto, authorized or required under the provisions of said Act, and in this behalf he shall do and perform such acts and things as may be authorized or required of him from time to time by direction of the President and under such rules and regulations as may bedprescrrbed by the President from time to time. All departments an agencies of the Government are hereby directed to cloqpersilte wrtlhetthe eqrctargy of Agriculture in the performance of the _ u res erein ore se or. r,i¤‘Zl°rlis°{’g€»°€i° F°°d Applications for licenses must be made to the Law Department, License Division, United States Food Administration, Washington, Pmm for mmm D. C., upon forms prepared for that purpose. puma. Y m` Any individual, partnership, association, or corporation, other than as herembefore exclqpted, who shall engagle in or carry on the business of importing, man actur1ng,storing, or `stributing such farm equip- Am 278. ment, after the date aforesard,_without first securing such license, will ’p‘ be hable to the penalty prescribed by said Act of (longress.