or to promote the success of its enemies, or shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements, or say or do anything except by way of bona fide and not disloyal advice to an investor or investors, with intent to obstruct the sale by the United States of bonds or other securities of the United States or the making of loans by or to the United States, and whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully cause, or attempt to cause, or incite or attempt to incite, insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct or attempt to obstruct the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, and whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the army or navy of the United States, or any language intended to bring the form of government of the United States, or the constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the army or navy of the United States into contempt, scorn, contumely or disrepute. or shall willfully utter, print, write or publish any language intended to incite, provoke or encourage resistance to the United States, or to promote the cause of its enemies, or shall willfully display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall willfully by utterance, writing, printing. publication or language spoken, urge, incite or advocate any curtailment of production in this country of any thing or things, product or products, necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war in which the United States may be engaged, with intent by such curtailment to cripple or hinder the United States in the prosecution of the war, and whoever shall willfully advocate, teach, defend or suggest the doing of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated, and whoever shall by word or act support or favor the cause of any country with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the cause

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of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both: Provided, That any employe or official of the United States government who commits any disloyal act or utters any unpatriotic or disloyal language, or who in abusive and violent manner criticizes the army or navy or the flag of the United States shall be at once dismissed from the service. Any such employe shall be dismissed by the head of the department in which the employe may be engaged and any such official shall be dismissed by the authority having power to appoint a successor to the dismissed official."

Sec. 2. That section 1 of title XII. and all other provisions of the act entitled "An act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes," approved June 15, 1917, which apply to section 3 of title I. thereof shall apply with equal force and effect to said section 3 as amended.

Title XII. of the said act of June 15, 1917. be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following section:

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which they were originally mailed all letters or other matter so addressed, with the words Mail to this address undeliverable under espionage act' plainly written or stamped upon the outside thereof, and all such letters or other matter so returned to such postmastere shall be by them returned to the senders thereof under such regulations as the postmaster-general may prescribe." (Approved May 16, 1918.)

CONSOLIDATION OF BUREAUS.

For the national security and defense, for the successful prosecution of the war, for the support and maintenance of the army and navy, for the better utilization of resources and industries, and for the more effective exercise and more efficient adminstration by the president of his powers as commander in chief of the land and naval forces, such redistribution of functions among executhe president is hereby authorized to make tive agencies as he may deem necessary. including duties, any functions, and powers hitherto by law conferred upon any executive department, commission, bureau, agency, office or officer, in such manner as in his judg ment shall seem best fitted to carry out the purposes of this act, and to this end is authorized to make such regulations and to issue such orders as he may deem necessary, which regulations and orders shall be in writing and shall be filed with the head of the department affected and constitute a public record. This act shall remain in force during the continu ance of the present war and for six months after the termination of the war by the proclamation of the treaty of peace, or at such earlier time as the president may designate. The authority by this act granted shall be exercised only in matters relating to the conduct of the present war.

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In carrying out the purposes of this act the president is authorized to utilize, co-ordinate consolidate any executive or administrative commissions, bureaus, agencies, offices or officers now existing by law, to transfer any duties or powers from one existing department, commission, bureau, agency, office or officer to another, to transfer the personnel thereof or any part of it either by detail or assignment, records and public property belonging thereto. together with the whole or any part of the Aircraft Agency.

The president is further authorized to estab lish an executive agency which may exercise such jurisdiction and control over the production of aeroplanes, aeroplane engines, and aircraft equipment as in his judgment may be advantageous; and, further, to transfer to such agency, for its use, all or any moneys heretofore appropriated for the production of aeroplanes, aeroplane engines and aircraft equip

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For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, any moneys heretofore and hereafter appropriated for the use of executive department, commission, bureau, agency, office or officer shall be expended only for the purposes for which it was appropriated under the directior of such other agency as may be directed by the president hereunder to perform and execute said function.

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"Sec. 4. When the United States is at war, the postmaster-general may, upon evidence satisfactory to him that any person or cern is using the mails in violation of any of the provisions of this act, instruct the postmaster at any post office at which mail is received addressed to such person or concern to return to the postmaster at the office

PROHIBITION IN HAWAII. Ninety days after the passage of this act, during the period of the war and thereafter, except as herein provided, it shall be unlawful in the territory of Hawaii to sell, give away, manufacture, transport, import or export intoxicating liquors, except for mechanical, scientific, sacramental or medical purposes, for which purposes the sale, gift, transport, import and export of the same shall be under such rules and regulations as the governor of the territory may prescribe, and any person violating the provisions hereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $500 or imprisoned for a period of not longer than one year, or both. At any general election of the territory of Hawaii, held within two years after the conclusion of peace, the repeal of this act may, upon petition of not less than 20 per centum of the qualified electors of the territory at the last preceding general election, be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the territory, and if a majority of all the qualified electors voting upon such question shall vote to repeal this act, it shall thereafter not be in force and effect; otherwise it shall be in full force and effect.

The said petition shall be addressed to and filed with the secretary of the territory at least two months before the election at which the question is to be voted upon, and the person obtaining any signature to such petition shall make affidavit that he witnessed the signing of the same and believes the address of each petitioner affixed to his name is the true address of such petitioner. Such election shall be conducted under the laws of the territory provided for general elections. proved May 23, 1918.)

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NUMBER OF ARMY CHAPLAINS. The president is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, chaplains in the army at the rate of not to exceed, including chaplains now in the service, one for each 1,200 officers and men in all branches of the military establishment, with rank. pay and allowance as now authorized by law. There shall be assigned at least one chaplain for each regiment of cavalry, infantry, field artillery and engineers. The persons appointed under this act shall be duly accredited by some religious denomination or organization and or good standing therein, under such regulations as prescribed by the secretary of war. No person shall be appointed chaplain in the army who on the date of appointment is more than 45 years of age. (Approved May 25, 1918.)

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SALE OF WAR MATERIALS. During the existing emergency the president is authorized, in his discretion, and upon such terms as he shall dem expedient, through the head of any executive department, to sell any supplies, materials, equipment or other property heretofore or hereafter purchased, quired or manufactured by the United States in connection with or incidental to the prosecution of the war, to any person, partnership, association or corporation, or to any foreign state or government engaged in war against any government with which the United States is at war; and any moneys received by the United States as the proceeds of any such sale shall be covered into the treasury of the United States and a full report of the same shall be forthwith submitted to congress. (Approved May 10, 1918.)

AGE OF NAVAL CADETS. Hereafter all candidates for admission to the naval academy must be not less than 16 years of age nor more than 20 years of age on April 1 of the calendar year in which they enter the academy: Provided. That the foregoing shall not apply to candidates for midshipmen designated for entrance to the academy in 1918. (Approved May 14, 1918.)

BANKS MAY CONTRIBUTE TO RED CROSS. During the continuance of the state of war now existing it shall be lawful for any national banking association to contribute to the American National Red Cross out of any net profits otherwise available under the law for the declaration of dividends such sum or sums as the directors of said association shall deem expedient. Each association shall report to the comptroller of the currency within ten days after the making of any such contribution the amount of such contribution and the amount of net earnings in excess of such contribution. Such report shall be attested by the president or cashier of the association in like manner as the report of the declaration of any dividend.

All sums so contributed shall be utilized by the American National Red Cross in furnishing volunteer aid to the sick and wounded of the combatant armies, the voluntary relief of the army and navy of the United States, and the relief and mitigation of the suffering caused by the war to the people of the United States and their allied nations. (Approved May 22, 1918.)

REQUISITIONING OF VESSELS.

The president may exercise the power and authority hereby vested in him through such agency or agencies as he shall determine from time to time.

All power and authority hereby vested in the president and all restrictions imposed in this act shall cease upon the proclamation of the final treaty of peace between the United States and the imperial German government: Provided, That if, in the judgment of the president, the tonnage shortage at such time is so severe that national interests of the United States are jeopardized, he may, by proclamation, extend the provisions of this act for a further period of not exceeding six months.

The president may, by proclamation, require that vessels of the United States of any specified class or description, or in any specified trade or trades, shall not be chartered unless the instrument in which such charter is embodied, and the rates, terms and conditions thereof are first approved by him. Whenever any vessel is comprised in any such proclamation it shall be unlawful to make any charter thereof without first obtaining the approval thereof by the president.

The president shall have power to determine and enforce reasonable freight rates and conditions which shall govern the transportation of goods on vessels of the United States, which shall be filed with the United States shipping board and open to public inspection. It shall be unlawful to charge or collect any compensation for the transportation of goods on any such vessel, not in accordance with the rates, terms and conditions prescribed. The president shall have power to prescribe the order of priority in which goods shall be carried or other services performed by any vessel of the United States and to specify goods which shall be carried or to direct the voyage or employment of any such vessel and to make such rules, regulations, and orders, with respect to any such vessel, relating to the loading, discharging, lighterage or storage of goods, or the procurement of bunker fuel. or any other matter as may in his judgment be necessary and proper for the efficient utilization of transportation facilities and the effective conduct of the war.

The president may by proclamation extend the above provisions to any vessel of foreign nationality under charter to a citizen of the United States or other person subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

The president shall have power to make such rules, regulations and orders regarding voyages, courses, the use of protective devices and any other matters affecting the navigation, equipment, fueling. painting or

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arming of vessels of the United States as may, in his judgment, be conducive to the protection of such vessels from submarines, mines other war perils, any expense so incurred to be allowed for in determining freight and charter rates under this act. If in his judgment any vessel or class of vessels on account of size, speed, structure, method of propulsion or for any other reason is unfit for service in any waters which he may declare to be a danger zone, he may, by order, exclude such vessel or vessels from such danger zone. It shall be unlawful to violate any order, rule or regulation made under this section. Rules, regulations or orders issued under this section may, in the discretion of the president, be issued confidentially, in which event they shall be binding only on such persons as have notice thereof.

The president may by proclamation require that no citizen of the United States, or other person subject to the jurisdiction thereof, shall charter any vessel of foreign nationality unless the instrument in which such charter is embodied and the rates, terms and conditions thereof are first approved by the president.

The president shall have power to requisition for military purposes, or for any other national purpose connected with or arising out of the present war, the temporary possession of any vessel, or, without taking actual possession, to requisition the services of any vessel and to require the person entitled to the possession thereof to issue to the master such instructions as may be necessary to place the vessel at the service of the United States.

Upon requisitioning such possession or services the president shall transmit to the person entitled to the possession of such vessel a charter setting forth the terms which, in his judgment, should govern the relations between the United States and such person and a statement of the rental or rate of hire which, in his judgment, will be just compensation for the use of such vessel and for the services required under the terms of such charter. If such person does not execute and deliver such charter and accept such rental or rate of hire. the president shall pay to such person a sum equal to 75 per cent of such rental or rate of hire and such person shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as added to such 75 per cent will make up such amount as will be just compensation for the use of the vessel and for the services required.

The president shall have power to prescribe the order of priority in which persons in possession of drydocks, wharves, lighterage systems or loading or discharging terminal facilities in any port of the United States, or warehouses, equipment or terminal railways connected therewith, shall serve vessels and shippers, and to determine and enforce the rates. terms and conditions charged or required for the furnishing of such services, including stevedoring and handling of cargo, and the handling, dispatching and bunkering of vessels, and to make such rules and regulations with respect to the conduct of any such business as may be necessary and proper.

The president shall have power to lease or requisition the use or temporary possession of, or to assume temporary control of, any drydocks, wharves or loading or discharging terminal facilities, in any port of the United States, or warehouses, equipment or terminal railways connected therewith.

Whenever the president requisitions or assumes control of any such property the United States shall pay just compensation therefor. to be determined by the president.

Nothing in this section shall authorize the president to requisition the title to any such property owned by any state. municipality or subdivision thereof.

All vessels of which the possession or services are requisitioned under this act, and all

drydocks, wharves, loading or discharging terminal facilities, warehouses, equipment or terminal railways, of which the president may acquire the title or possession or of which he may assume control under this act, may be operated and managed as the president may from time to time direct. The net proceeds derived from any activity authorized in this act shall be deposited in the treasury in a separate and distinct fund and may be expended by the president in carrying out the purposes of this act, and within the limits of the amounts heretofore or hereafter authorized, for the construction, requisitioning or purchasing of vessels; Provided, That none of the provisions of this act shall apply to vessels plying exclusively on the inland rivers and canals of the United States.

Whoever does or attempts to do anything in this act declared to be unlawful, or willfully violates any rule, regulation or order issued under authority conferred herein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both. (Approved July 18, 1918.) *

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FOURTH LIBERTY BOND ACT. Section 1 of the second liberty bond act, as amended by the third liberty bond act, is hereby further amended by striking out the figures $12,000,000,000" and inserting lieu thereof the figures "$20,000,000,000." Section 2 of the second liberty bond act, as amended by the third liberty bond act, is hereby further amended by striking out the figures "$5,500,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof the figures $7,000,000,000."

Notwithstanding the provisions of the second liberty bond act, as amended by the third liberty bond act, or of the War Finance corporation act, bonds and certificates of indebtedness of the United States payable in any foreign money or foreign moneys, and bonds of the War Finance corporation payable in any foreign money or foreign moneys exclusively or in the alternative, shall, if and to the extent expressed in such bonds at the time of their issue, with the approval of the secretary of the treasury, while beneficially owned by a nonresident alien individual, or by a foreign tion, partnership or association, no enga cc in business in the United States, be exempt both as to principal and interest from any and all taxation now hereafter imposed by the United States, any state or any of the possessions of the United States, or by any local taxing authority.

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Any incorporated bank or trust company designated as a depositary by the secretary of the treasury under the authority conferred by section 8 of the second liberty bond act, as amended by the third liberty bond act, which gives security for such deposits as, and to amounts, by him prescribed, may, upon and subject to such terms and conditions as the secretary of the treasury may prescribe. act as a fiscal agent of the United States in connection with the operations of selling and delivering any bonds, certificates of indebtedness or war savings certificates of the United States. The short title of this act shall be "Fourth liberty bond act." (Approved July 9, 1918.)

VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION `ACT.

This act shall be known as the "Vocational rehabilitation act." The word "board" shall mean the "federal board for vocational education"; the word "bureau" shall mean the "bureau of war-risk insurance.'

Every person who is disabled under circumstances entitling him, after discharge from the military or naval forces of the United States, to compensation under article III. of the act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to authorize the establishment of a bureau of war-risk insurance in the treasury department,' approved Oct. 6, 1917,

hereinafter referred to as "said act," and who, after his discharge, in the opinion of the board, is unable to carry on a gainful occupation, to resume his former occupation or to enter upon some other occupation or having resumed or entered upon such occupation is unable to continue the same successfully, shall be furnished by the said board, where Vocational rehabilitation is feasible, such course of vocational rehabilitation as the board shall prescribe and provide.

The board shall have power, and it shall be its duty, to furnish the persons included in this section suitable courses of vocational rehabilitation to be prescribed and provided by the board, and every person electing to follow such a course of vocational rehabilitation shall, while following the same, receive monthly compensation equal to the amount of his monthly pay for the last month of his active service, or equal to the amount to which he would be entitled under article III. of said act, whichever amount is the greater. If such person was an enlisted man at the time of his discharge, for the period during which he is so afforded a course of rehabilitation, his family shall receive compulsory allotment and family allowance according to the terms of article II. of said act in the same manner as if he were an enlisted man, and for the purpose of computing and paying compulsory allotment and family allowance his compensation shall be treated as his monthly pay: Provided. That if such person willfully fails or refuses to follow the prescribed course of Vocational rehabilitation which he has elected to follow, in a manner satisfactory to the board, the said board in its discretion may certify to that effect to the bureau and the said bureau shall, during such period of failure or refusal, withhold any part or all of the monthly compensation due such person and not subject to compulsory allotment which the said board may have determined should be withheld: Provided, however, That no Vocational teaching shall be carried on in any hospital until the medical authorities certify that the condition of the patient is such as to justify such teaching.

The military and naval family allowance appropriation provided for in section 18 of said act shall be available for the payment of the family allowances provided by this section, and the military and naval compensation appropriation provided for in section 19 of said act shall be available for the payment of the monthly compensation herein provided. No compensation under article III. of said act shall be paid for the period during which any such person is furnished by said board a course of vocational rehabilitation except as is hereinbefore provided.

duties as prescribed by this act, and is hereby authorized and directed to utilize, with the approval of the secretary of labor, the facilities of the department of labor, in so far as may be practicable, in the placement of reha bilitated persons in suitable or gainful occupations.

It shall also be the duty of the board to make or cause to have made studies, investigation and reports regarding the vocational rehabilitation of disabled persons and their placement in suitable or gainful occupations. When the board deems it advisable, such studies, investigations and reports may be made in co-operation with or through other departments and bureaus of the government. and the board in its discretion may co-operate with such public or private agencies as it may deem advisable in performing the duties imposed upon it by this act.

All medical and surgical work or other treatment necessary to give functional and mental restoration to disabled persons prior to their discharge from the military or naval forces of the United States shall be under the control of the war department and the navy department, respectively. Whenever training is employed as a therapeutic measure by the war department or the navy department a plan may be established between these agencies and the board acting in an advisory capacity to insure, in so far as medical requirements permit, a proper process of training and the proper preparation of instructors for such training. A plan may also be established between the war and navy departments and the board whereby these departments shall act in an advisory capacity with the board in the care of the health of the soldier and sailor after his discharge.

The board shall, in establishing its plans and rules and regulations for vocational training, co-operate with the war department and the navy department in so far as may be necessary to effect a continuous process of vocational training.

The board is hereby authorized and empow ered to receive such gifts and donations from either public or private sources as may be offered unconditionally. All moneys received as gifts or donations shall be paid into the treas ury of the United States, and shall constitute a permanent fund, to be called the "special fund for Vocational rehabilitation," to be used under the direction of the board, in connection with the appropriations hereby made or hereafter to be made, to defray the expenses of providing and maintaining courses of vocational rehabilitation.

There is hereby appropriated, available immediately and until expended, the sum of $2,000,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be used by the federal board for vocational education for the purposes of this act, to wit, for renting and remodeling buildings and quarters, repairing, maintaining and equipping same, and for equipment and other facilities necessary for proper instrucpreparation of instructors and salaries of instructors, supervisors and other experts, including necessary traveling expenses, $545,000; for traveling expenses of disabled persons in connection with training and for lodging, sub sistence and other necessary expenses in special cases of persons following prescribed courses, $250.000; for tuition for disabled persons pursuing courses in existing institutions, public or private, $545,000; for the placement and supervision after placement of vocationally rehabilitated persons, $45.000; for studies, investigations, reports and prepara tion of special courses of instruction, $55,000; for miscellaneous contingencies, including special mechanical appliances necessary in special cases for disabled men, $110,000, and for the administrative expenses of said board incident to performing the duties imposed by this act, including salaries of such assistants,