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 PROCLAMATIONS-JULY 25, 26, 1940 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 25" day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: SUMNER WELLES Acting Secretary of State. ADMINISTRATION OF SECTION 6 OF THE ACT ENTITLED, "AN ACT TO EXPEDITE THE STRENGTHENING OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE" APPROVED JULY 2, 1940 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Preamble. Ante, p. 714. Ante, p. 2712. Exports of desig- nated materials. License require- ment. WHEREAS section 6 of the act of Congress entitled "AN ACT To expedite the strengthening of the national defense," approved July 2, 1940, provides as follows: "Whenever the President determines that it is necessary in the interest of national defense to prohibit or curtail the exporta- tion of any military equipment or munitions, or component parts thereof, or machinery, tools, or material or supplies necessary for the manufacture, servicing or operation thereof, he may by proclamation prohibit or curtail such exportation, except under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. Any such proc- lamation shall describe the articles or materials included in the prohibition or curtailment contained therein. In case of the violation of any provision of any proclamation, or of any rule or regulation, issued hereunder, such violator or violators, upon con- viction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years or by both such fine and imprisonment. The authority granted in this Act shall terminate June 30, 1942, unless the Congress shall otherwise provide." AND WHEREAS by my proclamation no. 2413 of July 2, 1940, entitled "ADMINISTRATION OF SECTION 6 OF THE ACT ENTITLED 'AN ACT TO EXPEDITE THE STRENGTHEN- ING OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE' APPROVED JULY 2, 1940", I proclaimed that upon the recommendation of the Adminis- trator of Export Control I had determined that it was necessary in the interest of the national defense that certain listed articles and materials should not be exported from the United States except when authorized in each case by a license as provided for in the said procla- mation. 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 said act of Congress, do hereby proclaim that upon the recommendation of the aforesaid Administrator of Export Control I have determined that it is necessary in the interest of the national defense that on and after August 1, 1940, the additional materials hereinafter listed shall not be exported from the United July 26, 1940 [No. 2417] 2726 [54 STAT.

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