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 [55 STAT. PROCLAMATIONS-MAY 28, 1941 May 28, 1941 [No. 2488] 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 WHEREAS section 6 of the act of Congress entitled "AN ACT To expedite the strengthening of the national defense", approved July 54 Stat. 714; ante, p. 2, 1940, provides as follows: 50U.S. ., app. "Sec. 6 . Whenever the President determines that it is necessary in the interest of national defense to prohibit or curtail the ex- portation of any military equipment or munitions, or component parts thereof, or machinery, tools, or material or supplies neces- sary 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 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 hereunder, such violator or violators, upon conviction, 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 the joint resolution of Congress approved May Ante, p. 20. 28, 1941 provides as follows: "That the provisions of section 6 of the Act of Congress en- titled 'An Act to expedite the strengthening of the national de- fense', approved July 2, 1940 (54 Stat. 714), shall be applicable to all Territories, dependencies, and possessions of the United States, including the Philippine Islands, the Canal Zone, and the District of Columbia, and the several courts of first instance of the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands shall have jurisdic- tion of offenses committed in the Philippine Islands in violation of the provisions of that section or of any proclamation, or of any rule or any regulation, issued thereunder." exnort restrictions, NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- torits etc. dent of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the said act of Congress and the said joint resolution, do hereby proclaim that upon the recommendation of the Administrator of Export Control I have determined that it is necessary in the interests of the national defense that on and after this date the articles and materials described in the proclamations hereto- fore issued pursuant to the said section 6 shall not be exported from the Territories, dependencies, and possessions of the United States, including the Philippine Islands, the Canal Zone, and the District of Columbia, except when authorized in each case by license. For all Territories, dependencies, and possessions of the United States, in- cluding the Philippine Islands, the Canal Zone, and the District of Columbia, licenses shall be issued in accordance with Proclamations 54 Stat. 2712; ante, 2413 of July 2, 1940 and 2465 of March 4, 1941, and the rules and 6 F. R. 1501 ,1502. regulations prescribed by Executive Orders 8712 and 8713 of March 15, 1941, as they may be from time to time amended. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. 1648

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