"(f) Licenses shall be issued to persons who have registered as herein provided for, except in
cases of export or import licenses where the export of arms, amnmnition, or implements otwar
would be in violation of this Act or any other law of the United States, or of a treaty to which the
United States is a party, in which cases such licenses shall not be issued.
"(g) Whenever the President shall have issued a proclamation under the authority of section 1 of
this Act., all licenses theretofore issued under this Act shall ipso facto and immediately upon the
issuance of such proclamation, cease to grant authority to export arms, amnmnition, or
implements of war from any place in the United States to any belligerent state, or to any state
wherein civil strife exists, named in such proclamation, or to any neutral state for transshipment
to, or for the use of, any such belligerent state or any such state wherein civil strife exists; and said
licenses, insofar as the grant of authority to export to the state or states named in such
proclamation is concerned, shall be null and void.
"(h) No purchase of arms, ammunition, or implements of war shall be made on behalf of the
United States bv any officer, executive department, or independent establishment of' the
Government from any person who shall have failed to register under the provisions of this Act.
"(I) The provisions of the Act of August 29, 1910, relating to the sale of ordnance and stores
to the Government of Cuba (39 Stat. 619, 643; U.S. C., 1934 ed., title 50, sec. 72), are hereby
repealed as of December 31, 1937.
"(j) The Board shall make an annual report to Congress, copies of which shall be distributed as
are other reports transmitted to Congress. Such reports shall contain such information and data
eelleered by the Board as may be considered of value in the determination of questions connected
with the control of trade in arms, ammunition, and implements of war. The Board shall include in
such reports a list of all persons required to register under the provisions of this Act, and full
information concerning the licenses issued hereunder.
"(k) The President is herebv authorized to proclaim upon recommendat, ion of the Board
from"time to time a list of articles which shall be considered arms, ammunition, and implements of
war for the purposes of this section.
"AMERICAN VESSELS PROHIBITED FROM CARRYING ARMS TO BELLIGERENT
STATES
"Sec. 6. (a) Whenever the President shall have issued a proclamation under the authority of
section 1 of this Act, it shall thereafter be unlawful, until such proclamation is revoked, for any
American vessel to carry any arms, ammunition, or implements of war to any belligerent state, or
to any state wherein civil strife exists, named in such proclamation, or to any neutral state for
transshipment to, or for the use of, any such belligerent state or any such state wherein civil strife
exists.
"(b) Whoever, in violation of the provisions of this section, shah take, or attempt to take, or
shall authorize, hire, or solicit another to take, any American vessel carrying such cargo out of
port or from the jurisdiction of the United States shall be fined not more than $10,000,
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or imprisoned not more than five years, or both; and, in addition, such vessel, and her tackle,
apparel, furniture, and equipment, and the arms, ammunition, and implements of war on board,
shall be forfeited to the United States.
"USE OF AMERICAN PORTS AS BASE OF SUPPLY
"SEC. 7. (a) Whenever, during any war in which the United States is neutral, the President, or
any person thereunto authorized by him, shall have cause to believe that any vessel, domestic or
foreignj whether requiring clearance or not, ismabout, to carry out of a port of the United States,
fuel, men, arms, ammunition, implements of war, or other supplies to any warship, tender, or
supply ship of a belligerent state, but the evidence is not deemed sufficient to justify forbidding the
departure of the vessel as provided for by section 1, title V, chapter 30, of the Act approved June
15, 1917 (40 Stat. 217, 921; U.S. C., 1934: ed., title 18, sec. 31), and if, in the President's
judgment, such action will serve to maintain peace between the United States and foreign states,
or to protect the commercial interests of the United States and its citizens, or to promote the
security or neutrality of the United States, he shall have the power and it. shall be his duty to
require the owner, master, or person in command thereof, before departing from a port of the
United States, to give a bond to the United States, with sufficient sureties, in such amount as he
shall deem proper, conditioned that the vessel will not deliver the men, or any part of the cargo, to
any warship, tender, or supply ship of a belligerent state.
"(b) If the President, or any person thereunto authorized by him, shall find that a vessel,
domestic or foreign, in a port of the United States, has previously cleared from a port of the
United States during such war and delivered its cargo or any part thereof to a warship, tender, or
supply ship of a belligerent state, he may prohibit the departure of such vessel during the duration
of the war.
SUBMARINES AND ARMED MERCHANT VESSELS
"Sec. 8. Whenever, during any war in which the United States is neutral, the President shall
find that special restrictions placed on the use of the ports and territorial waters of the United
States by the submarines or armed merchant vessels of a foreign state, will serve to maintain
peace between the United States and foreign states, or to protect the commercial interests of the
United States and its citizens, or to promote the security of the United States, and shall make
proclamation thereof, it shall thereafter be unlawful for any such submarine or armed merchant
vessel to enter a port or the territorial waters of the United States or to depart therefrom, except
under such conditions and subject to such limitations as the President may prescribe. Whenever, in
his judg'ment, the conditions which have caused him to issue his proclamation have ceased to
exist, he shall revoke his proclamation and the provisions of this section shall thereupon cease to
apply.
"TRAVEL ON VESSELS OF BELLIGERENT STATES
"SEC. 9. Whenever the President shall have is used a proclamation under the authority of section
1 of this Act it shall thereafter be