Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-23
WAR TRADE BOARD.

hereby establish a war trade board
TO be composed of representatives, re-
spectively, of the secretary of state, OF
tbs secretary of the treasury, of the sec
rotary of agriculture of the secretary of
commerce, Of the food administrator and
of the United States shipping board.
I hereby vest in said board the power
and authority to issue licenses under such
terms and conditions as are not incon-
sistent with law or to withhold or re-
fuse licenses for the expectation of all
articles except coin, bullion or currency,
the expectation or taking of which out
of the United States may be restricted by
proclamations heretofore or hereafter is
sued by me under said title VII of the
espionage act.
/ further hereby vest in said war trade
board the power and authority to issue
upon such terms and conditions as are
not inconsistent with law or to withhold
or refuse licenses for the importation of
all articles, the importation of which may
be restricted by any proclamation here
after issued by me under section IL of
the trading with the enemy act.
/ further hereby vest in said war trade
board the power and authority not vested
in other officers by subsequent provisions
of this order, to issue under such terms
and conditions as are not inconsistent
WIFI law OF 10 WlIDlOlu refuse uCSIlStS
to trade either directly or indirectly with,
to or from, or for, or on account of or on
behalf of or for the benefit of, any other
person with knowledge or reasonable
cause to believe that such other person
Is an enemy or an ally of enemy or is
conducting or taking part In such trade
directly or indirectly for or on account
of, or on behalf Of or for the benefit of,
an enemy or ally Of enemy.
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board the power and authority, under
such terms and conditions as are not in
consistent with law, to issue to every
enemy or ally of enemy, other than enc
my or ally of enemy, insurance or rein
suTance companies, doing business within
the United States through an agency or
branch office, or otherwise, applying
therefor within 80 days of October 6, 1917,
licenses temporary or otherwise to con-
tinue to do business, or said board may
withhold or refuse the same.
And l further hereby vest in said war
trade board the executive administration
of the provisions of section 4 OBJ of the
trading with the enemy act, relative to
granting licenses to enemies and enemy
allies, to assume or use other names than
those by which they were known at the
beginning or the war, and / hereby au-
thOrize said board to issue licenses not
inconsistent WIN lne PROVISIONS Oh law
or to withhold or refuse licenses to any
enemy or ally of enemy partnership
of which an enemy or ally of enemy is a
member or was a member at the begin
ming Of the war to assume or use any
name other than by which such enemy
or ally of enemy or partnership was or
linarily known at the beginning of the
war.
I hereby revoke the executive order of
August q, 1917, creating the exports ad-
ministrative board All proclamations,
rules, regulations and instructions made
ior given by me under title VII of the
espionage act and now being administered
by the exports administrative board are
hereby continued, confirmed and made ap-
plicable to the war trade board, and all
employees of the export administrative
board are hereby transferred to and con-
stituted employees of the war trade
board in the same capacities, and said
war trade board is hereby authorized 70
exercise without interruption the powers
heretofore exercised by said exports ad-
administrative board.
The said war trade board is hereby au-
thorized and empowered to take all such
measures as may be necessary or expe-
dent to administer the powers hereby
conferred. And hereby vest in the war
trade board the power conferred upon the
president by section (A) to make such
rules and regulations, not inconsistent
with law, as may be necessary and prop
.er for the exercise of the power con-
ferred upon said board.