PREFATORY NOTE. Herein have been collected, by the direction of the Attorney General, those provisions of the so-called war legislation which deal with the taking and the control of private property for public use, benefit, or welfare. There have been excluded from this collection the statutory provisions dealing with the organization and government of our military and naval establishments, defining and punishing crimes incident to an effective providing for the common defense, and authorizing and providing for war-time financing. Some statutes not strictly emergency have been also included, since they are intimately connected with certain phases of the conduct of the war. These statutes have been annotated at appropriate places by references to the Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders putting them into effective operation, to Acts and Resolves of the Continental Congress and of the States during the Revolutionary War, and to Federal legislation during the wars of 1812, of 1847, and of the Civil War [including also the Confederate Statutes], all of which are printed herein immediately following the emergency legislation. While some early statutes may have been overlooked, it is believed that the more important ones have been included. As a casual examination will show, these annotation references are to the general subjects and principles covered by the statutes [both those annotated and those used for annotation], and not to their details. An Index-Digest of the Emergency Statutes and the Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders issued thereunder has been added at the end of the book. Annotations covering broad general subjects or principles will be found as follows: Compulsory orders under Section 120 of the "National Defense Act" [p. 2]; requisition of transportation, the "Council of National Defense Act" [p. 8]; control of exports, Title VII of the "Espionage Act" [p. 30]; hoarding, and the licensing of dealers in foodstuffs etc., Sections 5 and 6, Food Control Act [pp. 52, 54]; requisition of supplies and storage facilities, Section 10, Food Control Act [p. 57]; requisition of manufacturing establishments, IX Section 12, Food Control Act [p. 64]; regulation of dealings in nec- January 31, 1918. 1 PART I.—CURRENT EMERGENCY LEGISLATION UP TO "NATIONAL DEFENSE ACT." [Ap [166] CHAP. 134.-An Act For making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes. proved, June 3, 1916. 39 Stats. 166.] June 3, 1916. [H. R. 12766.] [Public, No. 85.] fense Act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-, National Detives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, [213] SEC. 120. PURCHASE OR PROCUREMENT OF MILI TARY SUPPLIES IN TIME OF ACTUAL OR IMMINENT WAR. The President, in time of war or when war is imminent, is empowered, through the head of any department of the Government, in addition to the present authorized methods of purchase or procurement, to place an order with any individual, firm, association, company, corporation, or organized manufacturing industry for such product or material as may be required, and which is of the nature and kind usually produced or capable of being produced by such individual, firm, company, association, corporation, or organized manufacturing industry. Military supplies. Purchases authorized from ma nufacturers in time of war. Orders obligatory to have be taken if etc., orders. Regular ammunition plants. Compliance with all such orders for products or material shall be obligatory on any individual, firm, associa- precedence, etc. tion, company, corporation, or organized manufacturing industry or the responsible head or heads thereof and, Possession to shall take precedence over all other orders and contracts plants refuse, theretofore placed with such individual, firm, company, association, corporation, or organized manufacturing industry, and any individual, firm, association, company, P corporation, or organized manufacturing industry or the responsible head or heads thereof owning or operating any plant equipped for the manufacture of arms or ammunition, or parts of ammunition, or any necessary supplies or equipment for the Army, and any individual, firm, association, company, corporation, or organized Iuanufacturing industry or the responsible head or heads thereof owning or operating any manufacturing plant, 37639-18-1 1 |