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 1940 PROCLAMATIONS, 1924. thought to the rotection of our forests from fire, to the end that, . P 1n the future as m the past, these forests may supply us with wood, ppohpctgahe Iéugity of our streams, and otherwise serve the people 0 the n1te tates. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 15th day of Feb., in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty- [sEAL.] four, and of the Independence of the United States of · America the one hundred and forty-egghth. C ALVIN OOLIDGE By the President: CHARLES E. HUGHES Secretary of State. BY THE PREsmENT or THE. UNITED STATES or ALIERICA A PROCLAMATION Ammscy and par- WHEREAS, in·and by the Constitution of the United States of d°§;wm,,,,_ America, i_t is provided that the President_"shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses agamst the United States, except in cases of impeachment" ; and R'S_’&_19m,p_3w, WIHEREAS, Sections 1996 and 1998 of the Revised Statutes of the V°‘·""’·P·3“· United States as modified by_the Act of Congress approved August 22, 1912 (37 Stat. 356), prescribe that all persons thereafter desertmg Lhe milifary ori naval} sergiilcei of th? Ufnited Slhates shlall lie deemedl to ave vo untari y re qui e an o eite their rig ts 0 citizens i , as well as their right to become citizens, and shall be forever incapabl)e of holding any ogice of trust or profit under the United States,_0r of exercising any rights of citizens thereof, but that said provisions “shall not apply to any erson hereafter deserting the m1l1tary or naval service of the Uniteg States in time of peace' ; and WHEREAS, an armistice was signed wit the Imiperial Austro- Hungarian Government on November 3, 1918, and wit the Imfperial German Govimmilalnt on Npivember 11, 1918, the effect of whic was to terminate osf `ties; an \70]_42’p_105_ WHEREAS, the war with the aforesaid foreign powers was not formally at an end until July 2 1921, as declare by a Joint Resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States a nroved July 2 1921, and by proclamations of the President of the V°L‘°"‘“°°°·‘°*°‘  of November 14, 11921:1 and Nio¥emberh17, 1%%}.; and , man ersons w o eserte rom the m1 ary or naval service of theyllifited States on or after November 11,_ 1918, and therefor were duly convicted of desertion committed in time of war, are now leading blameless lives and have reestablished themselves in the confidence of their fellow citizens, and it is believed that further ap lication of the provisions of the Revised Statutes hereinabove set forth to their cases would in most instances be productive of no good results and would be contrary to the spirit of those provisions; _ Granting amnesty NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN, that I, Calvin Coohdge, ${1 ¤¤·*d°¤ ¤¤ '·° ‘°*’· President of the United States of America, in consideration of the ure of citizenship,. . . eec.,1>ypm¤¤¤<1¤sm- premises, divers other good and sufficient reasons me thereunto §?§§§°¥§,‘},§§,”§',§"g}l'1Y,’Q·moving, do hereby declare and grant amnesty and pardon to all W°’*d W¤'~ persons who hav}? heriatofore been Of may herpagerthe ccéngwted of d rtion rom the mi itary or nava service 0 the United States in tiff; of war, committed during the war hereinbefore mentioned and