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FEDERAL
VOLUME 5

REGISTER
1934 V
Un it e d

NUMBER 72

Washington, Friday, A pril 12, 1940
T h e P re sid e n t D e f in it io n of a C ombat A rea BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS section 3 of the joint res olution of Congress approved November 4, 1939, provides as follows:
a Whenever the President shall have issued a proclamation under the authority of section 1 a, and he shall thereafter find that the protection of citizens of the United States so requires, he shall, by proclamation, define combat areas, and thereafter it shall be unlaw ful, except under such rules and regula tions as may be prescribed, for any citizen of the United States or any American vessel to proceed into or through any such combat area. The combat areas so defined may be made to apply to surface vessels or aircraft, or both.
b In case of the violation of any of the provisions of this section by any American vessel, or any owner or officer thereof, such vessel, owner, or officer shall be fined not more than $50,000 or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both. Should the owner of such vessel be a corporation, organization, or association, each officer or director par ticipating in the violation shah be liable to the penalty hereinabove prescribed.
In case of the violation of thfe section by any citizen traveling as a passenger, -ph passenger may be fined not more than imprisoned for not more than two y e a rs.o f both.
c The President may from time to time modify or extend any proclamation issued under the authority of this sec tion, and when the conditions which shall have caused him to issue any such proclamation shall have ceased to exist he shall revoke such proclamation and the provisions of this section shall there upon cease to apply, except as to of fenses committed prior to such revoca tion.

AND WHEREAS it is further provided by section 13 of the said joint resolution that The President may, from time to time, promulgate such rules and regu lations, not inconsistent with law as may be necessary and proper to carry out any of the provisions of this joint resolution; and he may exercise any power or authority conferred on him by this joint resolution through such of ficer or officers, or agency or agencies, as he shall direct.
AND WHEREAS on November 4, 1939, I issued a proclamation1 in ac cordance with the provision of law quoted above defining a combat area.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN
D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority con ferred on me by section 3 of the joint resolution of Congress approved No vember 4, 1939, do hereby find that the protection of citizens of the United States requires that there be an ex tension of the combat area defined in my proclamation of November 4, 1939, through or into which extended combat area it shall be unlawful, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed, for any citizen of the United States or any American vessel, whether a surface vessel or an aircraft, to proceed.
AND I do hereby define the extended combat area as follows:
All the navigable waters within the limits set forth hereafter.
Beginning at the intersection of the North Coast of Spain with the meridian of 245 longitude west of Greenwich;
Thence due north to a point in 43 54
north latitude;
Thence by a rhumb lire to a point in 45 north latitude, 20 west longitude;
Thence due north to 58 north, lati tude;
Thence by a rhumb line to a point in 7630 north latitude, 1635 east longi tude;
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CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Proclamation:
Page Extended combat area, defini tion____________________ 1399
Executive Order:
Foreign exchange transactions, transfer of credit, and ex port of coin and currency, regulatory order amended_1400
RULES, REGULATIONS, ORDERS
T it l e 22Department of State:
Travel in combat area_s____ 1401
T itle 24H ousing C r ed it :
Federal Savings and Loan In
surance Corporation:
Insurance of a c c o u n t s , amendment___________ 1401
T itle 31M oney and F inance :
T reasury :

Monetary Offices:
Foreign exchange transac tions, transfers of credit, payments, export or with drawal of coin, etc., re ports of foreign property interests in U. S.; regu lations _______________ 1401
NOTICES
Department of Agriculture:
Division of Marketing and Mar keting Agreements:
Tokay grapes grown in California, hearing on han
dling of______________ 1403
Food and Drug Administration:
Flour, etc., hearing on stand ards _________________ 1403
Department of the Interior:
Bituminous Coal Division:
Daugherty, W. H., & Son Re fining Co., exemption re newal granted_________ 1402
Department of Labor:
Wage and Hour Division:
Hearings on amendments to regulations relative to area of production 3
notices __________ 1406,1407
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