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 PROCLAMATIONS-OCT. 16, 18, 1939 IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President, CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. USE OF PORTS OR TERRITORIAL WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES BY SUBMARINES OF FOREIGN BELLIGERENT STATES October 18, 1939 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [No. 2371] A PROCLAMATION Tambllbe. WHEREAS section 8 of the Joint Resolution approved August 31, 1935, as amended by the Joint Resolution approved May 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 127; U. S . C ., Sup. IV, title 22, sec. 245e), provides: "Whenever, during any war in which the United States is neutral, the President shall find that special restrictions placed on the use of the ports and territorial waters of the United States by the submarines or armed merchant vessels of a foreign state, will serve to maintain peace between the United States and foreign states, or to protect the commercial interests of the United States and its citizens, or to promote the security of the United States, and shall make proclamation thereof, it shall thereafter be unlawful for any such submarine or armed merchant vessel to enter a port or the territorial waters of the United States or to depart therefrom, except under such conditions and subject to such limitations as the President may prescribe. Whenever, in his judgment, the conditions which have caused him to issue his proclamation have ceased to exist, he shall revoke his proclama- tion and the provisions of this section shall thereupon cease to apply." WHEREAS there exists a state of war between Germany and France; Poland; and the United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Union of South Afrca; WHEREAS the United States of America is neutral in such war; iMnding. NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the foregoing provision of section 8 of the Joint Resolution approved August 31, 1935, as amended by the Joint Resolution approved May 1, 1937, do by this proclamation find that special restrictions placed on the use of the ports and territorial waters of the United States, exclusive of the Canal Zone, by the submarines of a foreign belligerent state, both commercial submarines and submarines which are ships of war, will serve to maintain peace between the United States and foreign states, to protect the com- mercial interests of the United States and its citizens, and to promote the security of the United States Utenital wasU. res AND I do further declare and proaim hat it shall hereafter be terrhtorhel waters re- .Ioted. unlawful for any submarine of France; Germany; Poland; or the United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, or the 2668 [54 STAT.

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