PROCLAMATIONS, 1917. 1691 NOW, Therefore, be it known, that I, WOODROW WILSON, m’g§:l';;§§gg*0g{)}’;)‘;•;: President of the United States of America, in order to avoid possible proclamation. misunderstandings, do hereby proclaim, declare and make known that the aforesaid Proclamation, in purpose and intent, applied and does a ly to the following cases, to wit: (1) giises of defendants in United States courts, under suspended Cm °“°°"°°· sentences, wherein the sentences imposed were less than the period between the date of the imposition thereof and June 15, 1917. (2) Cases of defendants in United States courts, not actually in
- process of adjudication on June 14, 1917 (the date of the aforesaid
roclamation), wherein pleas of guilty were entered or verdicts of guilty were returned prior to June 15, 1916, and in which the imposition of sentence had been illegall suspended by the court or in which the court had illegally dechned to impose sentence upon proper motion by the prosecuting attorne . In consideration of the premises, and gy virtue of the powers in mm*°°*'°“· me vested, I have offered and do now oder amnesty and ardon to all such persons, defendants in said courts, and to no others; on the assumption that the enforcement of sentence would not f1u·ther the ends of justice in cases where the sentence would have been served when the mandate of the Supreme Court in the aforesaid case entitled "Ex parte United States, Petitioner," should become effective, if such sentence had been promptly imposed and its execution begim at the time of its imposition; and, further, on the assumption that, where the imposition of sentence had been designedly suspended, the offense was not a serious one, and that the sentence, if imlplpselil, would not have begeglilforlmore than a perliod 3; ope year. _~ Spam H t_ t e remaanm cases o a suspension, ext er the im 1- . °P¥’ °° ‘°“ tion or execution gof sentencefliy judges of United States coPugsts,gg¤i1s1i°d M an cum occurring prior to December 4, 1916, that being the date of the decision in the so-called Killits case, special application for executive clemency may be made by any person excepted from the benefits of the foregoing provisions, and such application will receive due consideration on the merits, in the course of the general respite of six ‘*”"#"·‘°"· months granted by the aforesaid Proclamation. In testimonly whereof I have hereunto signed my name and caused the sea of the United States to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia this 21st day of August, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sev- [snAL.] enteen, and of the Independence of the United States the One Hundred and Forty-Second. Woonnow Wu.soN By the President: Ronnnr Lansmc, Secretary of State. _ BY mn Pnnsmnnr or Tun Uxrrnn S·rA·rns or Aumuca A“¤“*’·m·‘”"’· A PROCLAMATION Whereas Congress has enacted, and the President has on the fif- ',{,‘;‘;,‘,§§,f‘P°'”· teenth day of June 1917, approved a law which contains the following provisions: _ " Whenever during the present war the President shall find that the §§},‘l",‘Qf"'2l’_i’°“""°”" public safety shall so require, and shall make proclamation thereof, it shall be unlawful to export from or ship from or take out of the United States to any country named in such proclamation any article or articles mentioned in such proclamation, except at such time or tunes, and under such regulations and orders, and subject to such limita-
