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 [55 STAT. PROCLAMATIONS-MAR. 18, 27, 1941 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 18" day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one, and [SEAL] of the 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. CONTROL OF THE EXPORT OF CERTAIN ARTICLES AND MATERIALS March 27, 1941 [No. 2468] 64 Stat. 714; ante, p. 206. 60U.S.C., app. § 701. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 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: "Sec. 6. Whenever the President determines that it is neces- sary in the interest of national defense to prohibit or curtail the exportation of any military equipment or munitions, or component parts thereof, or machinery, tools, or materials, or supplies necessary for the manufacture, servicing, or operation thereof, he may by proclamation prohibit or curtail such exportations, except under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. Any such proclamation 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 thereunder, such violator or violators, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000.00 or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The authority granted in this section shall terminate June 30, 1942, unless the Congress shall otherwise provide." NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President edxporti odesignat- of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the rials, restriction. authority vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby proclaim that upon the recommendation of the Administrator of Export Control I have determined that it is necessary in the interest Efective date. of the national defense that on and after April 15, 1941, the follow- ing-described articles and materials shall not be exported from the United States except when authorized in each case by a license as 4 Stat. 2712 . provided for in Proclamation 2413 of July 2, 1940, entitled "Admin- istration of section 6 of the act entitled 'AN ACT To expedite the strengthening of the national defense' approved July 2, 1940": 1. Animal, fish and marine mammal oils, fats and greases, edible and inedible. 2. Vegetable oils and fats, edible and inedible. 3. Vegetable oilseeds, and vegetable and other oil-bearing raw materials. 4. Fatty acids. 5. Bristles. 6. Nux vomica. 7. Nylon. 8. Kapok. P', p. 16. 9. Purified wood pulp containing 80% or more alphacellulose. 1622

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