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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1918. 1899 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia this 27th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-third. WOODROW WILSON By the President: ROBERT LANSING Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, Section 2 of the Act of Congress entitled, "An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes," approved October 6, 1917, known as the "Trading with the enemy Act," provides that the word "enemy" as used therein shall be deemed to mean for the purposes of such trading and of said Act: "Such other individuals, or body or class of individuals, as may be natives, citizens, or subjects of any nation with which the United States is at war, other than citizens of the United States, wherever resident or wherever doing business, as the President, if he shall find the safety of the United States or the successful prosecution of the war shall so require, may, by proclamation, include within the term ‘enemy’; ’ _ Now, Therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, pursuant to the authority vested in me by said Act, and in accordance with the provisions thereof, do find hereby that the following named individuals, and bodies and classes of individuals, are natives, citizens, or subjects of a nation with which the United States is at war, and that the safety of the United States and the successfuélprosecution of the war require that said individuals, and bodies and asses of individuals, be included within the term "enemy," as used in said Act; and therefore I do include hereby within said term "enemy" as used in said Act, the following individ- uals, and bodies and classes of individuals, to-wit: (1) Lina Haberland, of Meerane, Saxony, Germany. (2) Wm. Schmeider, of Meerane, Saxony, Germany. (3) Moritz Jacoby, of Berlin, Germany. (4) Edward Lehwess, of Berlin, Germany. (5) Kurt Schmeider, of Meerane, Saxony, Germany. (6) Lisette Zippel, of Germany. (7) Carl Schmeider, of Meerane, Saxony, Germany. (8) Paul Haberland, Officer in German Army. The said individuals numbered (1) to (8) both inclusive, being the owners and/or holders of certain shares of the capital stock of Garfield Worsted Mills, a corporation, of Garfield, New Jersey. (9) E. Ruckdeschel, Sr., of Gera, Germany. (10) Gustav Weissflog, of Gera, Germany. ` (11) Ernest F. Weissflog, of Gera, Germany. The aforesaid individuals numbered (9) to (11) both inclusive, being the owners, and/or holders of certain shares of the capital stock of Gera Mills, a corporation, of Passaic, New Jersey. (12) Ernst Fr. Weissflog, of Gera, Germany. (13) Paul Leibinger, of Ulm, Germany. (14) Marie Ruckdeschel, of Gera, Germany.