PROCLAMATIONS-SEPT. 5 , 1939 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary oJ State. September 5, 193 [No. 23501 Preamble. Ante, p. 2629. Modification of pre- vious proclamation in application to Canal Zone. Time limit for de- parture of belligerent vessels. Limitation on num- berofbelligerentships In Canal Zone waters. Ships of opposing belligerents, exception to provisions for de- parture. Basis for determin- ing priority in de- parture. PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS CONCERNING NEUTRALITY IN THE CANAL ZONE BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS a proclamation having been issued by me on the fifth day of September instant declaring the neutrality of the United States of America in the war now existing between Germany and France; Poland; the United Kingdom, India, Australia and New Zealand. AND WHEREAS the provisions of the said proclamation apply to the Canal Zone except in so far as such provisions may be modified by a proclamation issued for the Canal Zone; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim that, from and after the fifth day of September instant, the said proclamation issued by me on the fifth day of September instant, in its application to the Canal Zone, is hereby modified as follows: 1. The limit of twenty-four hours prescribed by the above procla- mation, with certain exceptions, as the maximum time a belligerent ship of war may remain within the jurisdiction of the United States shall apply to the total time such ship of war may remain in all the waters of the Canal Zone, except that the time required to transit the Canal shall be in addition to the prescribed twenty-four hours. Such transit shall be effected with the least possible delay in accord- ance with the Canal regulations in force, and only with such inter- mission as may result from the necessities of the service. 2. The maximum number of ships of war belonging to a belligerent and its allies which may be simultaneously in either terminal port and the terminal waters adjacent to such port shall be three. The maximum number of such vessels in all the waters of the Canal Zone simultaneously, including those in transit through the Canal, shall be six. 3. Belligerent ships of war, not carrying aircraft, departing from the jurisdiction of the Canal Zone from one of the terminal ports shall not be required to observe the prescribed interval of time between such departure and the departure from such jurisdiction of a vessel of an opposing belligerent from the other terminal port. 4. The time of original arrival of vessels within the jurisdiction of the Canal Zone, whether or not they transit the Canal, shall be used as the time of arrival in deciding the right of priority, between vessels of opposing belligerents, in departing from the jurisdiction of the Canal Zone. 2638 [54 STAT.
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