Chapter XLV: Appendix: F

PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION REGARDING REGULATION OF ALIEN ENEMIES

Pursuant to the authority vested in me, I hereby declare and establish the following regulations, which I find necessary in the premises and for the public safety:

(1) An alien enemy shall _not have in his possession_ at any time or place any fire-arm, _weapon_ or implement of war, or component part thereof, _ammunition_, maxim, or other silencer, bomb, or explosive or material used in the manufacture of explosives;

(2) An alien enemy shall not have in his possession at any time or place, or use or operate any aircraft or _wireless apparatus_, or any form of signalling device, or any form of _cipher code_, or any paper, document or book written or printed in cipher or in which there may be invisible writing.

(3) All property found in the possession of an alien enemy in violation of the foregoing regulations shall be subject to _seizure_ by the United States;

(4) An alien enemy shall _not approach or be found within one-half of a mile of any Federal or State fort_, camp, arsenal, aircraft station, Government or naval vessel, navy yard, _factory_, or workshop for the manufacture of munitions of war or of any products for the use of the army or navy;

(5) An alien enemy shall _not write, print, or publish any attack or threats against the Government_ or Congress of the United States, or either branch thereof, or against the measures or policy of the United States, or _against the person or property_ of any person in the military, naval, or civil service of the United States, or of the States or Territories, or of the District of Columbia, or of the municipal governments therein;

(6) An alien enemy shall _not commit or abet any hostile act_ against the United States, _or give information_, aid, or comfort to its enemies;

(7) An alien enemy shall _not reside in_ or continue to reside in, to remain in, or enter any locality which the President may from time to time designate by Executive Order as a _prohibited area_ in which residence by an alien enemy shall be found by him to constitute a danger to the public peace and safety of the United States _except by permit_ from the President and except under such limitations or restrictions as the President may prescribe;

(8) An alien enemy whom the President shall have _reasonable cause_ to believe to be aiding or about to aid the enemy, or to be at large to the danger of the public peace or safety of the United States, or to have violated or to be about to violate any of these regulations, _shall remove to any location designated_ by the President by Executive Order, _and shall not remove therefrom_ without a permit, or shall depart from the United States if so required by the President;

(9) No alien enemy shall _depart from the United States_ until he shall have received such permit as the President shall prescribe, or except under order of a court, judge, or justice, under Sections 4069 and 4070 of the Revised Statutes;

(10) No alien enemy shall _land in or enter the United States_, except under such restrictions and at such places as the President may prescribe;

(11) If necessary to prevent violations of these regulations, all alien enemies will _be obliged to register_;

(12) An alien enemy whom there may be _reasonable cause_ to believe to be aiding or about to aid the enemy, or who may be at large to the _danger of the public peace or safety_, or who _violates_, or attempts to violate, or of whom there is reasonable ground to believe that he is _about to violate, any regulation_ duly promulgated by the President, or any criminal law of the United States, or of the States or Territories thereof, will be subject to summary arrest by the United States Marshal, or his deputy, or such other officer as the President shall designate, and to _confinement_ in such penitentiary, prison, jail, military camp, or other place of detention as may be directed by the President. This proclamation and the regulations herein contained shall extend and apply to all land and water, continental or insular, in any way within the jurisdiction of the United States.

NOTE—Made applicable to _females_, who are natives, citizens,
denizens or subjects of Germany, by President’s Proclamation
of April 19, 1917, except that Regulation 4 was not to become
effective until such time as might be fixed and declared by the
Attorney General.

Transcriber’s Note:

Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have
been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal
signs=.