Proclamation No. 514 Series of 1940




MALACAÑANG PALACE Manila BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES Proclamation No. 514 PUBLISHING THE REGULATION PROMULGATED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES ON JANUARY 16, 1940, RELATING TO TRAVEL ON BELLIGERENT VESSELS. Whereas the Secretary of State of the United States did, on January 16, 1940, promulgate the following regulation: "Regulations relating to travel on belligerent vessel "Pursuant to the authority contained in the President’s Proclamation No. 2374 of November 4, 1939, issued pursuant to section 1 of the Neutrality Act of 1939, I, Cordell Hull, Secretary of State of the United States, hereby prescribe the following regulation, amending the regulations issued on November 6, 1939, as amended by regulations issued on November 17, 1939 and December 14, 1939, relating to travel on belligerent vessels: "American nationals may travel on belligerent vessels in the Bay of Fundy and its dependent waters. "(Sgd.) Cordell Hull "Secretary of State" Now, therefore, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, do hereby publish the above regulation for the information and guidance of all concerned. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to be affixed. Done at the City of Manila, this first day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fifth. MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines By the President: JORGE B. VARGAS Secretary to the President The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation