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 1848 rnocnamrrrous, 1918. AP °’*“°¥“*° *`°°‘ A lications for licenses must be made to the law department, Admggmamm llgcegsg divisgon, United S:a;test1]IE`q;od Administration, Washington, . .,uon orms re are or apurpose. _ ¤¤§$iri°§’§él$i°t mr °°°` Any ii1dividual,Ppel)rtnership, association, or corporation, other than as hereinbefore excepted, who shall engage in or carry on any business described herein, without first securing the license required ‘{”"'P‘m' therefor, will be liable to the penalties prescribed by sa1d Act of Co rrress. IU WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. _ Done in the District of Columbia this Sixth day of September, 111 the year of our Lord 1918, and of the indepen ence of the [SEAL.] United States of America, the one hundred and forty- third. Woonaow WILSON By the President: Ronnnr Laxsnm Secretary of State. BY 1*111: Pnnsmnivr or mm Umrsn Sryrrzs or Ammmca A PROCLAMATION ¥$ii¤ir“i>i$i°”` WHEREAS, under and biy virtue of an act of Congress entitled rm, p. um. **,411 Act to prov-ide further- or- the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution o food products and fuel," approved by the President on August 10, 1917, it is provided in Section 15, among other things, ugltatutory authorize- as follows: im, p. zzz. “Whenever the President shall find that limitation, regulation, or prohibition of the use of foods,fruits food materials,or eeds in the production of malt or viuous liquors for beverage purposes, or that reduction of the alcoholic content of any such malt or vinous liquor is essential, in order to assure an adequate and continuous supgly of food, or that the national security and defense will be subserved thereby, he is authorized, from time to time, to rescribe and give public notice of the extent of the limitation, regulation, rohibitron, or reduction so necessitated. Whenever such notice shall have been given and shall remain unrevoked,no person shall, aftera reasonable time prescribed in such notice,use any foods,fruits,food materials, or feeds in the production of malt or vinousliquors,or import any such liquors except under license issued by the President and in compliance with rules and regulations determined by him oveming the production and importation of such liquors and the aioholic v _ _ content thereof." ,,,,;,,{.fQ"§QLY*”,’§, Q,‘§§;,,,‘§ I§OW, THEREFORE, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the ¤*¤· United States of America, hiv virtue of the dpowers conferred on ' ‘ ° me by said Act of Congress, o hereby find an determine that it is essential, in order to assure an adequate and continuous supply of food, in order to subserve the national security and defense, and because of the increasing requirements of war industries for the fuel productive capacity of the country, the strain upon transportation to serve such 1.n ustrres, and the shortatge of labor caused by the necessity of increasing the armed forces o the United States, that the use of sugar, glucose, corn, rice or any other foods, fruits, food materials V k h d and eeds in the production of malt liquors includin near beer-, for` Omj§,;‘§,"{§,8f’“ °° beverage dpurposes be prohibited. Andi by this Proclamation I prescribe an give public notice that on and after October lst, 1918, no