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PROCLAMATIONS, 1919. 1937 BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES M¤rc114,1919. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, under and by virtue of an act of Congress entitled "An },‘mg{;°’S· Act to provide further for the national securit and defence by Ame,pp.'2s2,rm. encouraging the production, conserving the suppl7 , and controlling the distribution 0 food products and fuel, approved August 10, 1917, the President, on the 16th day of September, 1918, made a proclamation, containing the following prohibition: "I prescribe and give public notice that on and after October 1, 1918, no person shall use any sugar, glucose, corn, rice, or an other foods, fruits, food materials or feeds, except hops and mag now already made, in the production of malt liquors, including near beer, for beverage purposes, whether or not such malt liquors contain alcohol, and on and after December 1, 1918, no person shall use any sugar, glucose, corn, rice, or any other oods, fruits, food materials or feeds, including malt, in the production of malt liquors, including near beer, for beverage . purposes, whether or not such malt liquors contain alcohol." And whereas the President, under authority of the said act of August "““* p' “”°‘ 10, 1917, by further proclamation dated January 30, 1919, modified _ the said proclamation of September 16, 1918, so as to permit the use of grain m the manufacture of beverages which are not intoxicating, such proclamation providing as follows: "Whereas the prohibition of the use of grain in the manufacture of beverages which are not intoxicating has been found by the President to be no longer essential in order to assure an adequate and continuous su ply of food: Now, therefore, I do hereliy modify the aforesaid roclamation made on the 16th day of September, 1918, to the extent of permitting the use of grain in the manufacture of beverages which are not intoxicating. " And whereas for the roduction from a cereal base of a nonintoxicating beverage, which shall be nutritious and palatable, food products other than grains, of which there is now an adequate supply, but of which the use for such purposes is prohibited by the aforesaid proclamation of September 16, 1918, are required :-—— _ Now, therefore, I Woodrow Wilson, President of the United Stat-es tijgmcgyifg, ,,}"}’§Q{§‘ of America, do hereby amend the aforesaid proclamation of Sep- at;]. uw inwxicarinai tember 16, 1918, by inserting in the first sentence of the prohibiting m t quo"' paragraph, after the words, " production of " the word " intoxicating" and by striking out of the same sentence the words "including near beer"; and by inserting in the succeeding sentence in both places where the phrase "production of malt 11quors" occurs, after the words, "production of " the word "intoxicating," and striking out the phrases "including near beer" and "whether or not such malt liquors contain alcoho " in both places in that sentence where these phrases occur, so that as amended the prohibitory provisions of said proclamation shall read as follows: " that the use of sugar, glucose, corn, rice, or any other foods, edAm¢»1>·184$·=*¤¤°¤d· fruits, food materials and feeds in the production of intoxi- ` cating malt liquors for beverage purposes be rohibited. And by this Proclamation I prescribe and give public notice that on and after October 1, 1918, no erson shall use any sugar, glucose, corn, rice, or any other foodls, fruits, food materials or feeds, except hops and malt now already made, in the production of intoxicating malt liquors. for beverage purposes, and on and after December 1, 1918, no person shall use any sugar, glucose,