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1 SOLICITATION AND COLLECTION OF FUNDS
2 SEC. 5. (a) Whenever the President shall have issued
3 a proclamation under the authority of section 1 (a), it shall
4 thereafter be unlawful for any person within the United
5 States to solicit or receive any contribution for or on behalf of
6 the government of any small state named in the proclamation
7 or of any association, organization, or person acting for or
8 on behalf of such government. Nothing in this section shall
9 be construed to prohibit the solicitation or collection of con-
10 tributions to be used for medical aid and assistance, or for
11 food and clothing to relieve human suffering, when such
12 solicitation or collection of contributions is made on behalf
13 of and for use by any person or organization which is not
14 acting for or on behalf or in aid of any such government, but
15 all such solicitations and collections of contributions shall
16 be subject to the approval of the President and shall be made
17 under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe.
18 (b) Whenever the President shall have revoked any
19 proclamation issued under the authority of section 1 (a),
20 the provisions of this section and of any regulations issued
21 by the President hereunder shall thereupon cease to apply
22 With respect to the small states named in such proclamation,
23 except, With respect, to offenses comnfitted prior to such
24: revocation.
1 AMERICAN REPUBLICS
2 Sec. 6. The foregoing provisions of this joint resolution
3 shall not apply to any American republic.
4 USE OF AMERICAN PORTS AS BASE OF SUPPLY
5 Sec. 7. (a) Whenever, during any war in which the
6 United States is neutral, the President, or any person there-
7 unto authorized by him, shall have cause to believe that
8 any vessel, domestic or foreign, whether requiring clear-
9 ance or not, is about to carry out of a port of the United
10 States, fuel, men, arms, ammunition, implements of war,
11 or other supplies to any warship, tender, or supply ship
12 of a belligerent state in violation of the laws, treaties or obli-
13 gations of the United States under the law of nations and the
14 supreme law of the land, but the evidence is not deemed
15 sufficient to justify forbidding the departure of the vessel as
16 provided for by section 1, title V, chapter 30, of the Act
17 approved June 15, 1917 (40 Stat. 217, 221; U.S. C.,
18 1934 edition, title 18, sec. 31), and if, in the President's
19 judgment, such action will serve to maintain peace between
20 the United States and foreign states, or to protect the com-
21 mercial interests of the United States and its citizens, or to
22 promote the security or neutrality of the United States,
23 he shall have the power, and it shall be his duty, to require
24 the owner, master, or person in command thereof, before
25 departing from a port of the United States, to give a bond