BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

September 27, 1917.

Wallowa National

WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted Fowallowed. by excluding certain lands within the State of Oregon from the Preamble.. Wallowa National Forest, and by restoring the public lands subject to disposition in the excluded areas in a manner authorized by the Act of Congress approved September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (38 Stat., 113), entitled "An Act To authorize the President to provide a method for opening lands restored from reservaation or withdrawal, and for other purposes;"

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 ninetyseven (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 purposes," do proclaim that the boundaries of the Wallowa National Forest are hereby changed to exclude the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram hereto annexed and forming a part hereof.

Vol. 38, p. 113.

Area diminished.

Vol. 30, p. 36.

Excluded lands re

And I do further proclaim and make known that in my judgment stored to settlement.

Vol. 38, p. 113.

Time of opening.

it is proper and necessary, in the interest of equal opportunity and good administration, that all of the excluded lands subject to such 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 hundred and thirteen, I do hereby direct and provide that such lands, subject to valid rights, shall be opened to entry only, under the provisions of the homestead laws requiring residence at and after, but not before, nine o'clock a. m., standard time, November 15, 1917, and to settlement and other disposition, under any public land law applicable thereto, at and after, but not before, nine o'clock a. m., standard time, November 22, 1917. Prospective applicants may, during the period of twenty days preceding the date Filing applications. on which the land shall become subject to entry, selection, or location of the form desired under the provisions of this Proclamation, execute their applications in the manner provided by law and present the same, accompanied by the required payments, to the proper United States land office, 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 open

Warning is hereby given that no settlement initiated prior to seven days after the date for homestead entry above named will be recog- ing. nized, but all persons who go upon any of the lands to be restored hereunder and perform any act of settlement thereon prior to nine o'clock a. m., standard time, November 22, 1917, 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 Agricultural lands. 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 amendatory, will be considered and dealt with as trespassers and will gain no rights whatever under such unlawful settlement or occupancy; Provided, however, that

Vol. 34, p. 233.

lowed.

Examinations al- nothing herein contained shall prevent persons from going upon and over the lands to examine them with a view to thereafter approPrior settlement priating 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.

rights.

Area affected.

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 in the District of Columbia this twenty-seventh day of
September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine
[SEAL.] hundred and seventeen, and of the Independence of the
United States the one hundred and forty-second.

By the President:

FRANK L. POLK

Acting Secretary of State.

WOODROW WILSON.

October 8, 1917.

License of food commodities. Preamble.

Statutory provisions.
Public Laws, p. 276.

Public Laws, p. 277.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, Under and by virtue of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide further 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, and fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients, tools, utensils, implements, machinery, and equipment required for the actual production of foods, feeds, and fuel, hereafter in this Act called necessaries; to prevent, locally or generally, scarcity, monopolization, hoarding, injurious speculation, manipulations, and private controls, affecting such supply, distribution, and movement; and to establish and maintain governmental control of such necessaries during the war. For such purposes the instrumentalities, means, methods, powers, authorities, duties, obligations, and prohibitions hereinafter set forth are created, established, conferred and prescribed. The President is authorized to make such regulations and to issue such orders as are essential effectively to carry out the provisions of this Act." AND WHEREAS, It is further provided in said Act as follows: "That, from time to time, whenever the President shall find it essential to license the importation, manufacture, storage, mining or distribution, of any necessaries, in order to carry into effect any of the purposes of this Act, and shall publicly so announce, no person shall, after a date fixed in the announcement, engage in or carry on any such business specified in the announcement of importation, manufacture, storage, mining, or distribution of any necessaries as set forth in such announcement, unless he shall secure and hold a license issued pursuant to this section. The President is authorized to issue such licenses and to prescribe regulations for the issuance of licenses and requirements for systems of accounts and auditing of accounts to be kept by licensees, submission of reports by them, with or without oath or affirmation, and the entry and inspection by the President's duly authorized agents of the places of business of licensees."

AND, WHEREAS, It is essential, in order to carry into effect the provisions of the said Act, that the powers conferred upon the President by said Act be at this time exercised, to the extent hereinafter set forth,

ing of importation, stor

ing, and distributing of specified necessaries,

NOW, THEREFORE, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of Announcing licens the United States of America, by virtue of the powers conferred upon manufacturing, me by said Act of Congress, hereby find and determine and by this proclamation do announce that it is essential, in order to carry into essential to food con effect the purposes of said Act, to license the importation, manufacture, storage and distribution of necessaries, TO THE EXTENT HEREINAFTER SPECIFIED.

servation.

Occupations and

All persons, firm, corporations and associations engaged in the commodities seine

business either of (1) operating cold storage warehouses (a cold storage warehouse, for the purposes of this proclamation, being defined as any place artifically or mechanically cooled to or below a temperature of 45 degrees above zero Fahrenheit, in which food products are placed and held for thirty days or more), (2) operating elevators, warehouses or other places for the storage of corn, oats, barley, beans, rice, cotton seed, cottonseed cake, cottonseed meal or peanut meal, or (3) IMPORTING, MANUFACTURING (including milling, mixing or packing), or DISTRIBUTING (including buying and selling) any of the following commodities:

Wheat, wheat flour, rye or rye flour,

Barley or barley flour,

Oats, oatmeal or rolled oats,

Corn, corn grits, cornmeal, hominy, corn flour, starch from corn,

corn oil, corn syrup or glucose,

Rice, rice flour,

Dried beans,

Pea seed or dried peas,

Cotton seed, cottonseed oil, cottonseed cake or cottonseed meal,

Peanut oil or peanut meal,

Soya bean oil, soya bean meal, palm oil or copra oil,

Oleomargarine, lard, lard substitutes, oleo oil or cooking fats,

Milk, butter or cheese,

Condensed, evaporated or powdered milk,

Fresh, canned or cured beef, pork or mutton,

Poultry or eggs,

Fresh or frozen fish,

Fresh fruits or vegetables,

Canned: Peas, dried beans, tomatoes, corn, salmon or sardines,
Dried: Prunes, apples, peaches or raisins,

Sugar, syrups or molasses,

EXCEPTING, however,

(1) Operators of elevators or warehouses handling wheat or rye, and manufacturers of the derivative products of wheat or rye, who have already been licensed,

(2) Importers, manufacturers and refiners of sugar, and manufacturers of sugar syrups and molasses, who have already been licensed, (3) Retailers whose gross sales of food commodities do not exceed

$100,000.00 per annum,

(4) Common carriers,

or

(5) Farmers, gardeners, cooperative associations of farmers gardeners, including live stock farmers, and other persons with

Occupations, etc., excepted.

respect to the products of any farm, garden or other land owned, leased or cultivated by them,

(6) Fishermen whose business does not extend beyond primary consignment,

(7) Those dealing in any of the above commodities on any ex• Public Laws, p. 280. change, board of trade or similar institution as defined by Section 13 of the Act of August 10th, 1917, to the extent of their dealings on such exchange or board of trade,

License to be pro

1917.

(8) Millers of corn, oats, barley, wheat, rye or rice operating only plants of a daily capacity of less than seventy-five barrels,

(9) Canners of peas, dried beans, corn, tomatoes, salmon or sardines whose gross production does not exceed 5,000 cases per annum, (10) Persons slaughtering, packing and distributing fresh, canned or cured beef, pork or mutton, whose gross sales of such commodities do not exceed $100,000.00 per annum,

(11) Operators of poultry or egg packing plants, whose gross sales do not exceed $50,000.00 per annum,

(12) Manufacturers of maple syrup, maple sugar and maple compounds,

(13) Ginners, buyers, agents, dealers or other handlers of cotton seed who handle yearly, between September 1st and August 31st, less than one hundred and fifty tons of cotton seed,

cured by November 1, are hereby required to secure on or before November 1, 1917, a license, which license will be issued under such rules and regulations governing the conduct of the business as may be prescribed.

Application to Food Administration.

Penalty for noncompliance.

Application for license must be made to the United States Food Administration, Washington, D. C., Law Department-License Division, on forms prepared by it for that purpose, which may be secured on request.

Any person, firm, corporation or association other than those Public Laws, p. 278. hereinbefore excepted, who shall engage in or carry on any business

of

hereinbefore specified after November 1, 1917, without first securing such license will be liable to the penalty prescribed by said Act Congress.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done in the District of Columbia, this eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and [SEAL.] Seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the One Hundred and Forty-second.

By the President:

ROBERT LANSING,

Secretary of State

WOODROW WILSON

October 9, 1917.

Cache National Forest, Idaho and Utah. Preamble.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS an Executive Order dated April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, excluded from the Cache National Forest, in Idaho and Utah, certain lands; and

WHEREAS an Executive Order effective July first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, directed that all lands included within the boundaries of the Pocatello National Forest, within the States of Idaho and Utah, be transferred to and administered as a part of the Cache National Forest also within said States; and