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waste of fuel, and to secure an ade-
Quate supply and equitable distribu-
ton and prevent, locally and general
ly, scarcity thereof, and that to
these ends it is necessary that the
use of fuel shall be limited and re-
stricted in the manner hereinafter
set forth.
The United States Fuel Admins
traitor, acting under authority of an
Executive Order of the President of
the United States, dated % I'd Aug
ust, 1917, appointing said Admins
traitor, and of subsequent Executive
Orders and in furtherance of the
purpose of said orders, and of the
Act of Congress therein referred to
and approved August 10, 1917;
Hereby adjudges, that in his opin-
ion the use of fuel or of light gene
rated or produced by the use or
consumption of fuel for any of the
purposes hereinafter described, ex
cept as hereinafter provided,is waste
and that any person using fuel or
light for such purposes, except as
practice or device in handling or
dealing with fuel, and that the use
of fuel or light for such purposes ex-
cept as aforesaid is prejudicial and
injurious to the national security and
defense, and cause of scarcity 10
cally and generally. and said United
States Fuel Administrator hereby or
ders and directs that until further or
other order of the United States Fuel
Administrator and sAbject to modifl-
cation hereafter from time to time
and at any time:
. /. No city, village or town and
no person, firm or corporation under
town, shall use or consume any coal,
oil, gas or other fuel for the main
tenance of lights in the streets, parks
or other public places of such city,
village or town, except under the fol-
lowing restrictions and limitations:
(a) Street illumination automat
any such city, village or town, in the
streets, parks or other public places
thereof, shall not be lighted before
sunset and shall be turned out not
later than sunrise;
CD Street illumination lighted
by hand in any such city, village or
be to the requirements hereinabove
prescribed for automatic lights;
(c) The amount of public light
ing in any city, village or town shall
be only so much as may be necessary
for safety, and the use of lights COM
monty known as cluster lights for the
purpose of display or decoration,
shall be reduced to such portion on
ly of the cluster as is necessary for
safety
g. The local Fuel Administrator
for the territory within which any
city, village or town is located shall
arrange with the proper municipal
or town authorities of such city, vii
lage or town, for the regulation of
public lighting in accordance with
the provisions of paragraph 1 of this
Order Regulations for public light
ing so arranged shall in each case be
subject to the approval of the proper
State Fuel Administrator, and in
case regulations in accordance with
said paragraph l for the public light
ing Of any city, village or town, salts
factory to the State Fuel Admins
traitor of the State within which the
same is located, shall not have been
arranged between the local Fuel Ad
ministration and the proper munich
pal or town authorities as herein
above provided, within ten days
from and after the effective date of
this Order, said State Fuel Admin
istrator is hereby authorized and di-
rected to prescribe such regulations
for such city, village or town, and
the same shall be valid and binding.
3. Out door lights within a city,