SEC. 9. [Report to Congress contents.] That an itemized statement, covering all receipts and disbursements under this Act, shall be filed with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives on or before the twenty-fifth day of each month after the taking effect of this Act, covering the business of the preceding month, and such statement shall be subject to public inspection. Not later than the expiration of sixty days after this Act shall cease to be in effect the President shall cause a detailed report to be made to the Congress of all proceedings had under this Act. Such report shall, in addition to other matters, contain an account of all persons appointed or employed, the salary or compensation paid or allowed each, the aggregate amount of the different kinds of property purchased or requisitioned, the use and disposition made of such property, and a statement of all receipts and expenditures, together with a statement showing the general character and estimated value of all property then on hand, and the aggregate amount and character of all claims against the United States growing out of this Act. [40 Stat. L. 1353.]

SEC. 10. [Construction of Act.] That words used in this Act shall be construed to import the plural or singular, as the case demands; the word "person," wherever used in this Act, shall include individuals, partnerships, associations, and corporations. When construing and enforcing the provisions of this Act, the act, omission, or failure of any official, agent, or other person acting for or employed by any individual, partnership, association, or corporation, within the scope of his employment or office, shall in every case also be deemed the act, omission, or failure of such individual, partnership, association, or corporation, as well as that of the person. [40 Stat. L. 1353.]

SEC. 11. [Termination of Act-enforcement of rights and liabilities arising before termination.] That the provisions of this Act shall cease to be in effect whenever the President shall find that the emergency growing out of the war with Germany has passed and that the further execution of the provisions of this Act is no longer necessary for its purposes, the date of which termination shall be ascertained and proclaimed by the President; but the date when this Act shall cease to be in effect shall not be later than the first day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty: Provided, That after June first, nineteen hundred and twenty, neither the President nor any agency acting for him shall purchase or contract for the purchase of wheat or flour. The termination of this Act shall not affect any act done, or any right or obligation accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil case before the said termination pursuant to this Act; but all rights and liabilities under this Act arising before its termination shall continue and may be enforced in the same manner as if the Act had not terminated. Any offense committed and all penalties or liabilities incurred prior to such termination may be prosecuted or punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act had not been terminated. [40 Stat. L. 1353.]

An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel," approved August 10, 1917, and to regulate rents in the District of Columbia.

[Act of Oct. 22, 1919, ch. 80, 41 Stat. L. 297.] That this Act may be cited as "The Food Control and the District of Columbia Rents Act."1

TITLE I.- FOOD CONTROL ACT AMENDMENTS.

[SEC. 1.] [Food, fuel, etc.- encouraging production, conserving supply and controlling distribution-authority of President.] That section one of the Act entitled "An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel," approved August 10, 1917, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"That by reason of the existence of a state of war, it is essential to the national security and defense, for the successful prosecution of the war and for the support and maintenance of the Army and Navy, to assure an adequate supply and equitable distribution, and to facilitate the movement of foods, feeds, wearing apparel, containers primarily designed or intended for containing foods, feeds, or fertilizers; fuel, including fuel oil and natural gas, and fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients, tools, utensils, implements, machinery, and equipment required for the actual production of foods, feeds, and fuel, hereafter in this Act called necessaries; to prevent, locally or generally, scarcity, monopolization, hoarding, injurious speculation, manipulation, and private controls affecting such supply, distribution, and movement; and to establish and maintain governmental control of such necessaries during the war. For such purposes the instrumentalities, means, methods, powers, authorities, duties, obligations, and prohibitions hereinafter set forth are created, established, conferred, and prescribed. The President is authorized to make such regulations and to issue such orders as are essential effectively to carry out the provisions of this Act." [41 Stat. L. 297.]

For section 1 of the Act of Aug. 10, 1917, here amended, see 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 181.

SEC. 2. [Necessaries — destroying, restricting supply, or monopolizing — penalty - collective bargaining.] That section 4 of such Act of August 10, 1917, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"That it is hereby made unlawful for any person willfully to destroy any necessaries for the purpose of enhancing the price or restricting the supply thereof; knowingly to commit waste or willfully to permit preventable deterioration of any necessaries in or in connection with their production, manufacture, or distribution; to hoard, as defined in section 6 of this Act, any necessaries; to monopolize or attempt to monopolize, either locally or generally, any necessaries; to engage in any discriminatory and unfair, or any deceptive or wasteful practice or device, or to make any unjust or unreasonable rate or charge in handling or dealing in or with any necessaries; to conspire, combine, agree, or arrange with any other person, (a) to limit the facilities for transporting, producing, 1 The part of this Act which relates to "District of Columbia Rents" will be found under the title DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

harvesting, manufacturing, supplying, storing, or dealing in any necessaries; (b) to restrict the supply of any necessaries; (c) to restrict distribution of any necessarics; (d) to prevent, limit, or lessen the manufacture or production of any necessaries in order to enhance the price thereof; or (e) to exact excessive prices for any necessaries, or to aid or abet the doing of any act made unlawful by this section. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section upon conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding $5,000 or be imprisoned for not more than two years, or both: Provided, That this section shall not apply to any farmer, gardener, horticulturist, vineyardist, planter, ranchman, dairyman, stockman, or other agriculturist, with respect to the farm products produced or raised upon land owned, leased, or cultivated by him: Provided further, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to forbid or make unlawful collective bargaining by any cooperative association or other association of farmers, dairymen, gardeners, or other producers of farm products with respect to the farm products produced or raised by its members upon land owned, leased, or cultivated by them." [41 Stat. L. 298.]

For section 4 here amended, see 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 183.

SEC. 3. [Certain sections of original act repealed.] That sections 8 and 9 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel," approved August 10, 1917, be, and the same are hereby repealed: Provided, That any offense committed in violation of said sections 8 and 9, prior to the passage of this Act, may be prosecuted and the penalties prescribed therein enforced in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act had not been passed. [41 Stat. L. 298.]

For sections 8, 9, here repealed, see 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 185.

An Act To provide for the national welfare by continuing the United States Sugar Equalization Board until December 31, 1920, and for other purposes. [Act of Dec. 31, 1919, ch. —, 41 Stat. L. -.]

[United States Sugar Equalization Board-continuance-distribution of sugar-Act of Aug. 10, 1917, amended.] That the President is authorized to continue during the year ending December 31, 1920, the United States Sugar Equalization Board (Incorporated), a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, and to vote or use the stock in such corporation held by him for the benefit of the United States, or otherwise exercise his control over the corporation and its directors, in such a manner as to authorize and require them to adopt and carry out until December 31, 1920, plans and methods of securing, if found necessary for the public good, an adequate supply and an equitable distribution of sugar at a fair and reasonable price to the people of the United States. Sections 5 and 10 of the Act entitled "An Act to further provide for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel,” approved August 10, 1917, as far as the same relates to raw or refined sugar, syrups, or molasses, are hereby continued in full force and effect until December 31, 1920, notwithstanding the provisions of section 24 of said Act: Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall expire as to the domestic product June 30, 1920: And provided further, That the zone system of sale and distribution of sugars heretofore established by the said United States Sugar Equalization Board shall be

abolished and shall not be reestablished or maintained, and that sugars shall be permitted to be sold and to circulate freely in every portion of the United States. The termination of this Act shall not affect any act done, or any right or obligation accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil case before the said termination pursuant to this Act; but all rights and liabilities under this Act arising before its terminaton shall continue and may be enforced in the same manner as if the Act had not terminated. Any offense committed and all penalties, forfeitures, or liabilities incurred prior to such termination may be prosecuted or punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act had not been terminated. [41 Stat. L. -.]

For Act of Aug. 10, 1917, mentioned in the text, see 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 181.

FOREST RESERVES

See TIMBER LANDS AND FOREST RESERVES

GAME ANIMALS AND BIRDS

Act of Dec. 18, 1919, ch. -, 62.

Sec. 1. District of Columbia - Sale, Purchase, etc., of Certain Wild Birds Prohibition, 62.

2. License to Take or Kill Game Birds - Scientific Purposes - Penalties for Violating Provisions of Act, 62.

3. Sale of Certain Birds for Propagating Purposes, 63.

4. Conflicting Acts - Repeal, 63.

An Act To prohibit the purchase, sale, or possession for the purpose of sale of certain wild birds in the District of Columbia.

[Act of Dec. 18, 1919, ch. -, 41 Stat. L. -.]

[SEC. 1.] [District of Columbia - sale, purchase, etc., of certain wild birds -prohibition.] That it shall be unlawful, within the District of Columbia, for any person at any time to buy, sell, or expose for sale, or to have in possession for the purpose of selling, any heath hen, sage hen, any kind of quail, bob white, grouse, partridge, ptarmigan, prairie chicken, pheasant, wild turkey, Hungarian partridge, English, ring-necked, Mongolian or Chinese pheasant, or marsh blackbird. [41 Stat. L.-.]

SEC. 2. [License to take or kill game birds — scientific purposes - penalties for violating provisions of Act.] That nothing herein contained shall preven the right of any person to take or kill any game birds herein defined when the same shall be so taken or killed by virtue of the authority of a license duly issued by the proper authorities of said District of Columbia for scientific purposes.

That any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Act shall be fined not more than $100, or be imprisoned for not more than one month, or both so fined and imprisoned: Provided, That each bird mentioned in this

Act so had in possession, bought, sold, exposed for sale, or had in possession for the purpose of sale shall constitute a separate offense. [41 Stat. L. -.]

SEC. 3. [Sale of certain birds for propagating purposes.] That nothing in this Act shall prevent the sale at any time of Hungarian partridges, English, ring-necked, Mongolian or Chinese pheasants, when the same shall have been raised in captivity, or the sale of birds mentioned in this Act alive, for propagating purposes, under such regulations and requirements as shall be prescribed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. [41 Stat. L.-.]

SEC. 4. [Conflicting Acts-repeal.]

repeal.] That all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. [41 Stat. L. -.]

GUANO ISLANDS

Presidential Proclamation.- On February 25, 1919, the President by virtue of this section issued a proclamation as follows:

"Whereas, the Congress of the United States has provided by act of August 18, 1856 (11 U. S. Statutes at Large, page 119; Secs. 5570 to 5578 U. S. Revised Statutes), that whenever any citizen of the United States, after the passage of the act, discovers a deposit of guano on any island, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other government and shall take peaceable possession thereof and occupy the same, the island rock or key may, at the discretion of the President of the United States, be considered as appertaining to the United States.

"And whereas, pursuant to the foregoing act of Congress, Serrana and Quita Sueño Banks in the western part of the Caribbean Sea are now under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States and out of the jurisdiction of any other government.

"Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby declare, proclaim, and make known that the southwest cay of Serrana Banks and the north, or other suitable portion of Quita Sueña Banks, including any small detached cays surrounding either of these banks, which the Department of Commerce may desire, be and the same are reserved for lighthouse purposes, such reservations being deemed necessary in the public interests, subject to such legislative action as the Congress of the United States may take with respect thereto."

HAWAII

See POSTAL SERVICE