Proclamation No. 717




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 717, May 29, 1941 ] PUBLISHING A JOINT RESOLUTION PASSED BY THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS AND SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ON MAY 26, 1941, WHICH AMENDS THE EXPORT CONTROL ACT OF JULY 2, 1949, SO AS TO EXTEND THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 6 OF THAT ACT TO THE PHILIPPINES, AND A PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ON MAY 28, 1941, MAKING APPLICABLE TO THE PHILIPPINES ALL PREVIOUS PROCLAMATIONS AND EXECUTIVE ORDERS UNDER SECTION 6 OF THE EXPORT CONTROL ACT Whereas the United States did pass and the President of the United States did, on May 28, 1941, sign the following Joint Resolution: “That the provisions of Section 6 of the Act of Congress entitled ‘An Act to Expedite the Strengthening of the National Defense, approved July 2, 1940 (54 Stat. 714) shall be applicable to all territories, dependencies and possessions of the United States including the Philippine Islands, the Canal Zone and the District of Columbia and the several courts of first instance of the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands shall have jurisdiction of offenses committed in the Philippine Islands in violation of the provisions of that section or of any proclamation or of any rule or any regulations, issued thereunder; Whereas the President of the United States did, on May 28, 1941, issue the following Proclamation: “Whereas section 6 of the Act of Congress entitled ‘An Act to Expedite the Strengthening of the National Defense,' approved July 2, 1940, provides as follows: ‘Sec, 6. Whenever the President determines that it is necessary in the interest of national defense to prohibit or curtail the exportation of any military equipment or munitions, or component parts thereof, or machinery, tools, or material, or supplies, necessary for the manufacture, servicing, or operation thereof, he may by proclamation prohibit or curtail such exportation, except under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. Any such proclamation shall describe the articles or materials included in the prohibition or curtailment contained therein. In case of the violation of any provision of any proclamation, or of any rule or regulation, issued hereunder, such violator or violators, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The authority granted in this section shall terminate June 30, 1942, unless the Congress shall otherwise provide;' and “Whereas the joint resolution of Congress approved May 28, 1941 provides as follows: ‘That the provisions of Section 6 of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to Expedite the Strengthening of the National Defense,” approved July 2, 1940 (54 Stat. 714) shall be applicable to all territories, dependencies and possessions of the United States including the Philippine Islands, the Canal Zone and the District of Columbia and the several courts of first instance of the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands shall have jurisdiction of offenses committed in the Philippine Islands in violation of the provisions of that section or of any proclamation or of any rule or any regulations issued thereunder;' “Now, therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the said Act of Congress and the said joint resolution, do hereby proclaim that upon the recommendation of the Administrator of Export Control I have determined that it is necessary in the interests of the national defense that on and after this date the articles and materials described in the proclamations heretofore issued pursuant to the said section 6 shall not be exported from the territories, dependencies and possessions of the United States including the Philippine Islands, the Canal Zone and the District of Columbia except when authorized in each case by license. For the territories, dependencies and possessions of the United States including the Philippine Islands, the Canal Zone and the District of Columbia licenses shall be issued in accordance with Proclamations 2413 of July 2, 1940 end 2465 of March 4, 1941 and the rules and regulations prescribed by Executive Orders 8712 and 8713 of March 15, 1941 as they may be from time to time emended.1aшphi1 “In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. “Done at the City of Washington, this twenty-eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. “FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT “BY THE PRESIDENT: “CORDELL HULL “SECRETARY OF STATE;” Now, therefore, I, MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, do hereby publish the above Joint Resolution and Proclamation for the information and guidance of all concerned. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to be affixed. Done at the City of Baguio, this 29th day of May, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the sixth. (Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON By the President: (Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS Secretary to the President The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation