Proclamation No. 2488, Signed by President Roosevelt, May 28, 194157
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:
[Here follows the text of the act as quoted in proclamation No. 2413 of July 2, 1940, printed on page 211.]
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 regulation, 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 [Page 263] 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 all 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 and 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 amended.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
By the President:
Cordell Hull
Secretary of State
- Reprinted from Department of State, Bulletin, May 31, 1941 (vol. iv, No. 101). p. 657.↩