after due publication of this order, furnish to the American diplomatic or consular officer who visaes his passport, in the foreign country from which he starts on his trip to the United States, and to the American authorities at the port of entry or elsewhere in the United States, written declaration setting forth the bearer's name, occupation, and nationality and the names and places of birth of the members of his immediate family who accompany him, and stating the following facts: (1) The date and place of the bearer's birth; (2) the nationality and race of his father and mother; (3) the place of the bearer's last foreign residence and the other places, if any, where he has resided within the past five years; (4) if he has ever been in this country, the dates and objects of his visits and the places and address where he resided or sojourned; (5) the date set for his departure for the United States, the port of embarkation, and the name of the ship on which he is to sail, if he goes by water; (6) names and addresses of persons acquainted with the applicant in the country from which he starts and in the United States; (7) the expected duration and object of his proposed visit to this country, the documentary or other proofs of such object submitted, and the place or places in the United States where he expects to sojourn or reside; (8) that the bearer knows and understands the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917, excluding certain classes of aliens from the United States, and is certain that he does not fall within any of such classes; (9) that the bearer understands that if, on arrival at a port of the United States, he is found to be a member of a class excluded by said immigration law, he will be deported if practicable, or, if for any reason deportation should be found to be impracticable, will be held in detention indefinitely in an immigration station or other place of confinement, and that he is, with full understanding thereof, assuming all risks involved in a possible return trip in consequence of being rejected under such law. A wife or minor child who does not expect to reside with the husband or father in this country will be required to carry a separate declaration.

Each declaration must be affirmed or sworn to before a consular officer, or a diplomatic officer of the United States, if specially authorized, and signed in triplicate, and a photograph of the declarant must be attached to each copy with an impression of the official seal. The declaration must be made at least two weeks before the date of intended departure, except in cases of extraordinary emergency. One copy of the declaration must be filed in the embassy, legation, or consulate by which the passport is first visaed, one copy forwarded immediately to the Commissioner of Immigration or inspector in charge at the port of entry by which the declarant expects to enter the United States, and one copy fastened to the passport of the declarant, in such a way that it may be removed upon his departure from the United States. The copy last mentioned must be presented with the passport to the official at the port of entry into this country who examines passports, and to the immigration official who inspects the holder, and to such other officials in the United States as may be authorized to inspect such documents.

No fee shall be collected by diplomatic or consular officers of the United States for or in connection with the execution of such declaration or the visaing of passports.

No American embassy, legation, or consulate shall visa a passport of an alien enemy of the United States to enable him to enter this country unless special authorization of this Government has been previously obtained.

In order to prevent or avoid so far as possible the hardships and dangers involved in deportation under present conditions, a diplomatic or consular officer to whom a passport is presented for visa shall ascertain to the fullest extent practicable whether the holder is a member of any one of the classes excluded from the United States by the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917, and if in the judgment of such official the alien is a member of any such excluded class he shall so advise the alien, informing him of the serious risk he is taking in attempting to enter the United States, and, if the alien nevertheless insists on proceeding, shall visa the passport if it is valid, but shall place upon the alien's declaration the notation: "Advised that he will probably be rejected and deported." In such case the consul making the notation shall write upon the copy of the declaration to be sent to the proper immigration official in the United States a statement of his reasons for making it.

Aliens "likely to become a public charge," from whatsoever cause such likelihood may arise, are excluded by Section 8 of the Immigration Act (S. Rep. No. 352, 64th Cong., 1st sess.). Unless, during the present state of war, aliens applying for admission present evidence by which their identity and nationality are positively proved, such aliens, if they enter the United States, are liable to be taken into custody as enemies and thereby become public charges. Therefore, immigration officials will exclude from the United States any alien who may apply for admission and not be in possession of a passport or other official document establishing his identity and nationality, visaed in the manner specified in this order, and will cause such alien to be returned to the country whence he came, at the expense of the transportation company involved: Provided, however, That such exclusion shall not be made in the cases of alien seamen arriving in ports of the United States, unless such seamen apply for permanent admission to this country, or unless it is necessary to require such papers in order to ascertain whether alien seamen are enemies of the United States; nor in the cases of aliens entering temporarily from contiguous foreign territory to follow agricultural pursuits, in accordance with the terms of Department of Labor circular of May 23, 1917, and the supplements thereto. Alien seamen not provided with passports or other official documents showing their identity and nationality may be detained until they receive passports from the consular representatives of the countries whose nationality they claim. Any alien who enters the United States in violation of this order shall be arrested, in substantial conformity with rule 22 of the Immigration Rules, with a view to his deportation to the country whence

he came, and his detention under proper restrictions until such deportation can be effected.

FRANK L. POLK, Acting Secretary of State. W. B. WILSON,

Secretary of Labor.

THE ISSUANCE OF PASSPORTS AND THE GRANTING OF PERMITS TO DEPART FROM AND ENTER THE UNITED STATES

FROM AUGUST 8, 1918, TO JULY 1, 1924

[President's proclamation No. 1473 of August 8, 1918]

Whereas by Act of Congress approved the twenty-second day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, entitled "An Act to Prevent in Time of War Departure From and Entry Into the United States Contrary to the Public Safety," it is provided as follows:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when the United States is at war, if the President shall find that the public safety requires that restrictions and prohibitions in addition to those provided otherwise than by this Act be imposed upon the departure of persons from and their entry into the United States and shall make public proclamation thereof, it shall, until otherwise ordered by the President or Congress, be unlawful

(a) For any alien to depart from or enter or attempt to depart from or enter the United States except under such reasonable rules, regulations, and orders, and subject to such limitations and exceptions as the President shall prescribe;

(b) For any person to transport or attempt to transport from or into the United States another person with knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that the departure or entry of such other person is forbidden by this Act;

(c) For any person knowingly to make any false statement in an application for permission to depart from or enter the United States with intent to induce or secure the granting of such permission either for himself or for another;

(d) For any person knowingly to furnish or attempt to furnish or assist in furnishing to another a permit or evidence of permission to depart or enter not issued and designed for such other person's use;

(e) For any person knowingly to use or attempt to use any permit or evidence of permission to depart or enter not issued and designed for his use;

(f) For any person to forge, counterfeit, mutilate, or alter, or cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered, any permit or evidence of permission to depart from or enter the United States;

(g) For any person knowingly to use or attempt to use or furnish to another for use any false, forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered permit, or evidence of permission, or any permit or evidence

of permission which, though originally valid, has become or been made void or invalid.

Sec. 2. That after such proclamation as is provided for by the preceding section has been made and published and while said proclamation is in force, it shall, except as otherwise provided by the President, and subject to such limitations and exceptions as the President may authorize and prescribe, be unlawful for any citizen of the United States to depart from or enter or attempt to depart from or enter the United States unless he bears a valid passport.

Sec. 3. That any person who shall wilfully violate any of the provisions of this Act, or of any order or proclamation of the President promulgated, or of any permit, rule, or regulation issued thereunder, shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $10,000, or, if a natural person, imprisoned for not more than twenty years, or both; and the officer, director, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in such violation shall be punished by like fine or imprisonment, or both; and any vehicle or any vessel, together with its or her appurtenances, equipment, tackle, apparel, and furniture, concerned in any such violation, shall be forfeited to the United States.

Sec. 4. That the term "United States" as used in this Act includes the Canal Zone and all territory and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

The word "person" as used herein shall be deemed to mean any individual, partnership, association, company, or other unincorporated body of individuals, or corporation, or body politic.

AND WHEREAS other provisions relating to departure from and entry into the United States are contained in Section 3, sub-section (b), of the Trading with the Enemy Act, approved October 6, 1917, and in Section four thousand and sixty-seven of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of April 16, 1918, and Sections four thousand and sixty-eight, four thousand and sixty-nine, and four thousand and seventy of the Revised Statutes, and in the regulations prescribed in the President's Proclamations of April 6, 1917, November 16, 1917, December 11, 1917, and April 19, 1918;

AND WHEREAS the Act of May 20, 1918, authorizes me to coordinate and consolidate executive agencies and bureaus in the interest of economy and more efficient concentration of the Government; Now, THEREFORE, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the aforesaid authority vested in me, do hereby find and publicly proclaim and declare that the public safety requires that restrictions and prohibitions in addition to those provided otherwise than by the Act of May 22, 1918, above mentioned, shall be imposed upon the departure of persons from and their entry into the United States; and I make the following orders thereunder:

1. No citizen of the United States shall receive a passport entitling him to leave or enter the United States, unless it shall affirmatively appear that there are adequate reasons for such departure or entry

and that such departure or entry is not prejudicial to the interests of the United States.

2. No alien shall receive permission to depart from or enter the United States unless it shall affirmatively appear that there is reasonable necessity for such departure or entry and that such departure or entry is not prejudicial to the interests of the United States.

3. The provisions of this proclamation and the rules and reg ulations promulgated in pursuance hereof, shall not be held to suspend or supersede in any respect, except as herein expressly provided, the President's Proclamations of April 6, 1917, November 16, 1917, December 11, 1917, and April 19, 1918, above referred to; nor shall anything contained herein be construed to suspend or supersede any rules or regulations issued under the Chinese Exclusion law or the immigration laws except as herein expressly provided; but the provisions hereof shall, subject to the provisos above mentioned, be regarded as additional to such rules and regulations. Compliance with this Proclamation and the rules and regulations promulgated in pursuance hereof shall not exempt any individual from the duty of complying with any statute, proclamation, order, rule, or regulations not referred to herein.

4. I hereby designate the Secretary of State as the official who shall grant, or in whose name shall be granted, permission to aliens to depart from or enter the United States; I reaffirm sections 25, 26, and 27 of the Executive Order of October 12, 1917, vesting in the Secretary of State the administration of the provisions of Section 3, sub-section (b), of the Trading with the Enemy Act; I transfer to the Secretary of State the executive administration of Regulations 9 and 10 of the President's Proclamation of April 6, 1917, of Regulation 15 of the President's Proclamation of November 16, 1917, and of Regulations 1 and 2 of the President's Proclamation of December 11, 1917, and the executive administration of the aforesaid regulations as extended by the President's Proclamation of April 19, 1918, said executive administration heretofore having been delegated to the Attorney General under dates of April 6, 1917, November 16, 1917, December 11, 1917, and April 19, 1918. The Rules and Regulations made by the Secretary of the Treasury as authorized by Title II, Section 1, of the Espionage Act approved June 15, 1917, and by the Executive Order of December 3, 1917, shall be superseded by this Proclamation and the rules and regulations promulgated in pursuance hereof in so far as they are inconsistent therewith.

I hereby direct all departments of the government to co-operate with the Secretary of State in the execution of his duties under this Proclamation and the rules and regulations promulgated in pursuance hereof. They shall upon his request make available to him for that purpose the services of their respective officials and agents. The Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the