Adm 352.4 4.5. 918 UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION. W. G. MCADOO, Director General. WALKER D. HINES, Assistant Director General. Division of Finance and Purchases: JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS, Director. General Counsel: JOHN BARTON PAYNE. Division of Operation: CARL R. GRAY, Director. Division of Traffic: EDWARD CHAMBERS, Director. Division of Labor: W. S. CARTER, Director. Division of Public Service and Accounting: Division of Capital Expenditures: Division of Inland Waterways: F F. NOV 22 1939 No. 241-Sixty-fourth Congress (H. R. 15947)—An act making appro- priations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, No. 242 Sixty-fourth Congress (H. R. 17498)-An act making appropria- tions for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, No. 107-Sixty-fifth Congress (S. 3752)—An act to provide for the operation of transportation systems while under Federal control, for the just com- pensation of their owners, and for other purposes.. Proclamations by the President relating to the United States Railroad Adminis- CONTENTS. Proclamation of December 26, 1917, taking railroads and transportation systems under Federal control and appointing the Director General of Statement of the President accompanying his procalmation of December Opinion sustaining W. G. McAdoo, Director General of Railroads, by Hon. Form A.-Agreement between the Director General of Railroads and blank Form B.-Agreement between the Director General of Railroads and blank Index to.. (3) PUBLIC ACTS AND PROCLAMATIONS. [Extract.] [Public-No. 241-64th Congress.] [H. R. 15947.] An act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes: * * * as Section six of an act entitled "An act to regulate commerce," approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, amended March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, which reads: "That in time of war or threatened war preference and precedence shall, upon demand of the President of the United States, be given over all other traffic for the transportation of troops and material of war, and carriers shall adopt every means within their control to facilitate and expedite the military traffic." be amended to read as follows: "That in time of war or threatened war preference and precedence shall, upon demand of the President of the United States, be given over all other traffic for the transportation of troops and material of war, and carriers shall adopt every means within their control to facilitate and expedite the military traffic. And in time of peace shipments consigned to agents of the United States for its use shall be delivered by the carriers as promptly as possible and without regard to any embargo that may have been declared, and no such embargo shall apply to shipments so consigned." * * [Extract.] [Public-No. 242-64th Congress.] [H. R. 17498.] An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. * * * The President, in time of war, is empowered, through the Secretary of War, to take possession and assume control of any system or systems of transportation, or any part thereof, and to utilize the same, to the exclusion as far as may be necessary of all other traffic thereon, for the transfer or transportation of troops, war material and equipment, or for such other purposes connected with the emergency as may be needful or desirable. * * * BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas the Congress of the United States, in the exercise of the constitutional authority vested in them, by joint resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives bearing date April 6, 1917, resolved: That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and that the President be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial German Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States. And by joint resolution bearing date of December 7, 1917, resolved: That a state of war is hereby declared to exist between the United States of America and the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government; and that the President be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States. And whereas it is provided by section 1 of the act approved August 29, 1916, entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, and for other purposes," as follows: The President in time of war is empowered, through the Secretary of War, to take possession and assume control of any system or systems of transportation, or any part thereof, and to utilize the same, to the exclusion, as far as may be necessary, of all other traffic thereon, for the transfer or transportation of troops, war material, and equipment, or for such other purposes connected with the emergency as may be needful or desirable. And whereas it has now become necessary in the national defense to take possession and assume control of certain systems of trans |
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