It is not intended by this proclamation to reserve any lands not immediately heretofore embraced in a national forest, nor to exclude any lands except the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram hereto annexed. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done this nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and of the Inde[SEAL.] pendence of the United States the one hundred and forty-third. By the President: FRANK L. POLK Acting Secretary of State. WOODROW WILSON BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION. Area affected. June 19, 1919. Tahoe National For- est, Calif. and Nev. Central Pacific RailHoy Company selec tions. Vol. 18, p. 194. WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by excluding certain lands in California and Nevada from the Tahoe National Forest, by restoring to the public domain upon exclusion the E2 of SE4 of Sec. 2, T. 16 N., R. 11E., M. D. M., California, in order that said land may be selected by the Central Pacific Railway Company under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled, "An act for the relief of settlers on railroad lands", in partial satisfaction of its relinquishment of a tract of one hundred and sixty acres of its granted lands in Idaho, which has been resided upon and improved under a homestead entry improperly allowed June eighteen, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and by restoring the public lands subject to disposition in the remaining excluded areas in a manner authorized by the Act of Congress approved September thirtieth, nineteen hundred Vol. 38, p. 113. and thirteen (38 Stat., 113), entitled, "An Act To authorize the President to provide a method for opening lands restored from reservation or withdrawal, and for other purposes"; Area diminished. Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (30 Stat., 11 at 34 and 36), entitled, "An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other pur", do proclaim that the boundaries of the Tahoe National Forest are hereby changed to exclude the areas indicated as elinimations upon the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part thereof, and that the said E2 of SE4 of Sec. 2, T. 16 N., R. 11 Ê., M. D. M., California, is hereby restored to the public domain. And I do further proclaim and make known that in my judgement Excluded lands reit is proper and necessary, in the interest of equal opportunity and good administration, that the remainder of the excluded lands subject to disposition should be restored to homestead entry in advance of settlement or other forms of disposition, and pursuant to the authority reposed in me by the aforesaid act of September thirtieth, nineteen Vol. 38, p. 113. hundred and thirteen, I do hereby direct and provide that such lands, subject to valid rights and the provisions of existing withdrawals, stored to settlement. shall be opened to entry only under the provisions of the homestead Time of opening. laws requiring residence, where subject thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o'clock a. m., standard time, on the sixty-third day after the date of this proclamation, and to settlement and other disposi tion under any public land law applicable thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o'clock a. m., standard time, on the seventieth day Filing applications after said date. Prospective applicants may, during the period of twenty days preceding the date on which these land shall become subject to entry, selection or location of the form desired under the provisions of this restoration, execute their applications in the manner provided by law and present the same, accompanied by the required payments, to the proper United States land offices in person, by mail, or otherwise, and all applications so filed, together with such as may be submitted at the hour fixed, shall be treated as though simultaneously filed and shall be disposed of in the manner prescribed by existing regulations. Under such regulations conflicts of equal rights will be determined by a drawing. Warning against trespassing prior to opening. Agricultural lands. Warning is hereby given that no settlement initiated prior to seven days after the date for homestead entry above prescribed will be recognized, but all persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored as herein above provided and perform any act of settlement thereon prior to nine o'clock a. m., standard time, on the seventieth day from and after the date hereof, or who are on or are occupying any part of said lands at such hour, except those having valid subsisting settlement rights initiated prior to withdrawal from settlement and since maintained, and those having preferences to make entry under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six (34 Stat., 233), entitled "An Act To provide for the entry of agricultural lands within forest reserves", and Acts amednatory, will be considered and dealt with as trespassers and will gain no Examinations al rights whatever under such unlawful settlement or occupancy; Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to Prior settlement thereafter appropriating them in accordance herewith. Persons having prior settlement rights or preferences, as above defined, will be allowed to make entry in accordance with existing law and regulations. lowed. rights. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done this nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and of the Indepen[SEAL.] dence of the United States the one hundred and fortythird. By the President: FRANK L. POLK Acting Secretary of State. WOODROW WILSON June 19, 1919. PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, under and by virtue of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel", approved by the President on the 10th day of August, 1917, it is provided among other things as follows: "That, by reason of the existence of a state of war, it is essential to the national security and defense, for the successful prosecution of the war, and for the support and maintenance of the Army and Navy, to assure an adequate supply and equitable distribution, and to facilitate the movement of foods, feeds, fuel, including fuel oil and natural gas, fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients, tools, utensils, implements, machinery, and equipment required for the actual production of foods, "That, from time to time, whenever the President shall find it AND, WHEREAS, by virtue of the above provisions certain public AND, WHEREAS, a changed situation has been brought about by the present armistice in the war between the United States and Germany. Vol. 40, p. 277. Announcing the liproducts no longer NOW, THEREFORE, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the censing of designated United States of America, by virtue of the powers conferred upon me essential. by said Act of Congress hereby find and determine and by this Proclamation do announce that it is no longer essential in order to carry into effect the purpose of the Act that the importation, manufacture, storage or distribution of certain necessaries be subject to license, to the extent hereinafter specified. Special licenses can Licenses heretofore required for the importation, manufacture, celed. storage or distribution of certain necessaries are hereby cancelled, effective June 21, 1919, with respect to the following: All persons, firms, corporations or associations engaged in the business of importing, manufacturing, storing or distributing rice or rice flour. Rice and rice flour. Regulationscanceled All regulations issued under the said Act cover licensees so dealing June 21, 1919. in these commodities are hereby cancelled, effective June 21, 1919. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done this nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand Nine Hundred and Nineteen, and of the Inde[SEAL.] pendence of the United States of America the One Hundred and Forty-third. By the President FRANK L POLK WOODROW WILSON Acting Secretary of State. June 23, 1919. Wheat and wheat flour. Preamble. Vol. 40, p, 1348. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A PROCLAMATION By virtue of the powers conferred upon me by an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to enable the President to carry out the price guarantees made to producers of wheat of the crops of 1918 and 1919 and to protect the United States against undue enhancement of its liabilities thereunder", approved by the President on the 4th day of March, 1919, as well as by virtue of the Powers conferred upon me by any and all other acts of Congress conferring authority ing of wheat and flour upon me in the premises, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United storage, manufacture, States of America, do hereby find and determine and by this proclamation do announce that it is essential, in order to carry into effect the purposes of said acts, to license the storage and distribution of wheat and the manufacture, storage and distribution of wheat flour to the extent hereinafter specified. Announcing licens etc., as essential. Businesses affected. All persons, firms, corporations and associations engaged in or carrying on the business of storing or distributing wheat or manufacturing, storing or distributing wheat flour, and all persons, firms, corporations and associations who manufacture, either wholly or partly from wheat flour, bread or other bakery products for sale, excepting, however (a) bakers and manufacturers of bakery products, whose consumption of flour in the manufacture of such of products is, in the aggregate, less than 50 barrels per month; (b) Retailers, and farmers, or cooperative associations of farmers or other persons, with respect to the products of any farm or other land owned; leased or cultivated by them; and (c) Common carriers, as to operations necessary to the business of common carriers, Are hereby required to secure, on or before July 15, 1919, a license from Julius H. Barnes, United States Wheat Director, in such form, under such conditions, and under such rules and regulations governing the conduct of the business as such director may from time to time prescribe. Applications for licenses must be made to the United States Wheat Director, Washington, D. C., upon forms prepared by him for that purpose. Any person, firm, corporation or association, other than those hereinbefore excepted, who shall engage in, or carry on, any business above specified after July 15, 1919, without first securing such license, or while such license is suspended, or after such license is revoked, will be liable to the penalties prescribed by law. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed this [SEAL.] 23rd day of June, in the year of our Lord 1919, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-third. FRANK L POLK By the President Acting Secretary of State WOODROW WILSON BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A PROCLAMATION June 24, 1919. Wheat and wheat WHEREAS, Congress has enacted and the President has on the flour. fourth day of March, 1919, approved "An Act to enable the President Preamble. to carry out the price guarantees made to producers of wheat of the crops of 1918 and 1919, and to protect the United States against undue enhancement of its liabilities thereunder" which act contains the following provision: Statutory authoriza "That whenever the President shall find it essential in carrying tion. out the guarantees aforesaid, or to protect the United States against Vol. 40, p. 1350. undue enhancement of its liabilities thereunder, and shall make proclamation thereof, it shall be unlawful to import into the United States from any country named in such Proclamation, or to export from or ship from or take out of the United States to any country named in such Proclamation, wheat, semolina, or wheat flour, except at such time or times, and under such regulations or orders, and subject to such limitations and exceptions as the President shall prescribe, until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress; provided, that no preference shall be given to the ports of one State over those of another," Prohibiting importexporting thereof,subject to limi ind Countries desig NOW, THEREFORE, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the powers conferred upon me by the aforesaid Act of Congress, as well as by virtue of the powers conferred upon me by any and all other Acts of Congress conferring authority upon me in the premises, hereby find and proclaim to all it may concern, that it is essential in carrying out the guarantees aforesaid and to protect the United States against undue enhancement of its liabilities thereunder, that wheat and wheat flour, on and after July 1st, 1919, shall not be imported into the United States from, and shall not be exported from or shipped from or taken out of the United States to Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Austria, Bel- nated. gium, her colonies, possessions and protectorates, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, her colonies, possessions and protectorates, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, her colonies, possessions and protectorates, Germany, Great Britain, her colonies, possessions and protectorates, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Hedjaz, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, her colonies, possessions and protectorates, Japan, her colonies and protectorates, Liechtenstein, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, the Netherlands, her colonies, possessions and protectorates, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Persia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, her colonies, possessions and protectorates, Roumania, Russia, Salvador, San Marino, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Siam, Spain, her colonies, possessions and protectorates, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela, or any other foreign country, except at such time or times and under such regulations or orders, and subject to such limitations and exceptions as shall be prescribed, until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress. Licenses to be issued The regulations, orders, limitations and exceptions will be pre- by Wheat Director. scribed and administered by and under the authority of Julius H. Barnes, United States Wheat Director, from whom licenses in conformity with said regulations, orders, limitations and exceptions will issue. The Powers of War Trade powers and authority heretofore vested in the War Trade Board transferred to Board by any Proclamation or Executive Order heretofore issued Wheat Director. by me in respect to the prohibition or regulation of imports or exports |