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PROCLAMATIONS, 1933. IN WITNESS \VHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Wash.ington this 2pt day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and th.irty-three, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-eighth. By the President: \VILLIAM PHILLIPS FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT Acting Secretary oj State. [No. 2067] (GRANTING PARDON TO PERSONS CONVICTED OF CERTAIN WAR-TniJ OFFENSES] 1725 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA December 23, 1~=-. A PROCLAMATION Whereas in and 7 the Constitution of the United States of Persons convicted of • •'••• certain war·time of- Amenca, It IS proVlde tllat the PreSident "shall have power to grant fenses. reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except ~r:rs:::~s of the in cases of impeachment", and Constitution. Whereas various persons have been from time to time convicted Violations specified. in the cou~ts of the United States of violations of certain statutes enacted during the war between the United States and the Imperial German Government and Imperial Austro-Hungarian Government, to wit: Section 3 of Title I of the Act approved June 15, 1917, entitled 1/ An Seditious acts, etc. Act To punish acts of interference with the., foreign relations the VoJ.4O,p.2111;U.H .C. , p. 1691. neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish ~sf.l~age,~c. espionage, and better to enforce the criminul laws of the United 0., p. . States; and for other purposes" (40 Stat. 217); and said section as amenaed by the Act approved May 16, 1918 (40 Stilt. 553); or of a conspiracy to violate the same; Conspiracy to violate Section 5 of the Act approved on June 15, 1917, ~elective draft. entitled 1/ An Act To authorize the President to increase temporarily Vol. 40 , [lp. 80, 955. the Military Establishment of the United States" (40 Stilt. 76); and said Section as amended by the Act approved August 31, 1918 (40 Stat. 955); and Whereas, the emergen(,y contemplated hy the aforesnid statutes has long expired; Now, Therefore, Be it Known, that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, if!~~le~:1::$s!~t~ President of the United States of America, in consideration of the been (,'owpJied with. premises, divers other good and sufficient reasons me thereunto moving, do hereby declare and grant a full pardon to all persons who have lieretofore been convicted of a violation of any of the foregoing statutory provisions or of a conspiracy to violate the same, and who have complied with the sentences imposed on them; provided, how- :ie:TarmstroBot (talk)ilon. ever, that such pardon shall not be construed to pardon such persons for any offenses other than those designated herein, whether committed prior or subsequently to the offenses herein designated.