in which such plant is located or by his duly authorized representative upon application by the United States Food Administrator;

(d) Plants necessary to the printing and publication of daily papers my burn fuel or use power derived therefrom as usual, except that on every Monday from January 21 to March 25, 1918, inclusive, they may burn fuel or use power derived therefrom only to such extent as is necessary to print and publish such editions as such plants customarily print and publish on legal holidays other than the Sabbath; or, if such plants do not customarily print or publish any editions on such legal holidays, they may burn fuel or use such power to such extent as is necessary to issue one edition on the said Mondays;

(e) Printing establishments may burn fuel on January 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22, 1918, to such extent as is necessary to issue current numbers of magazines and other publications periodically issued;

SECTION IV.

On each Monday beginning January 21, 1918, and continuing up to and including Monday, March 25, 1918, no fuel shall be burned (except to such extent as is essential to prevent injury to property from freezing) for the purpose of supplying heat for: (a) Any business or professional offices, except offices used by the United States, State, county, or municipal governments, transportation companies, public-utility companies, telephone or telegraph companies, banks, trust companies, physicians, or dentists;

(b) Wholesale or retail stores, or any other stores, business houses, or business buildings whatever, except that for the purpose of selling food only, stores may maintain necessary heat on any of the specified days until 12 o'clock noon; and except that for the purpose of selling drugs and medical supplies only, stores may maintain necessary heat throughout the day and evening;

(c) Theaters, moving-picture houses, bowling alleys, billiard rooms, private or public dance halls, or any other place of public amusement.

SECTION V.

On each Monday beginning January 21, 1918, and continuing up to and including March 25, 1918, no fuel shall be burned for the purpose of heating rooms in which intoxicating liquor is sold or served on those days.

Nothing in this regulation shall be construed to forbid the heating of restaurants, hotels, or other places in which meals are served, but in which no intoxicating liquor is sold or served on the said Mondays.

SECTION VI.

No fuel shall be burned on any of the Mondays specified in the foregoing section for the purpose of supplying power for the movement of surface, elevated, subway, or suburban cars or trains in excess of the amount used on the Sunday previous thereto.

SECTION VII.

Nothing in this regulation shall be construed to apply to or affect the operation of any mine or plant producing fuel, nor shall this regulation be construed to forbid the heating of such rooms or offices, or such portions of buildings, as are used in connection with the production, transportation, or distribution of fuel.

SECTION VIII.

State Fuel Administrators and their representatives specifically authorized so to do are hereby empowered to grant such relief as may be essential to prevent injury to health or to prevent destruction of or injury to property by fire or freezing.

SECTION IX.

This regulation is effective throughout the United States east of the Mississippi River, including the whole of the States of Louisiana and Minnesota.

SECTION X.

Any person, firm, association, or corporation which violates or refuses to conform to the above regulation may be liable to the penalty prescribed in the aforesaid act of Congress.

H. A. GARFIeld, United States Fuel Administrator.

Order of the United States Fuel Administrator of Jan. 19, 1918, Amending with Re pect to Theatres and other Places of Amusement, Section IV, of the Regulation of Jan. 17, 1918, Making Provi ion for a more Adequate Supply of Fuel for Railroad, etc.

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 19, 1918.

In order to accommodate public holiday attendance, fuel may be burned on any of the Mondays beginning January 21, 1918, and continuing up to and including March 25, 1918, for the purpose of supplying heat for theatres, moving-picture houses, bowling alleys, billiard rooms, private or public dance halls, or any other place of public amusement; but no fuel shall be burned on any Tuesday, beginning January 22, 1918, and continuing up to and including Tuesday, March 26, 1918 (except to such extent as is essential to prevent injury to property from freezing), for the purpose of supplying either heat or light for any of the places of amusement aforesaid on any of the Tuesdays above specified. To the extent indicated herein the regulation of the United States Fuel Administrator dated January 17, 1918, is hereby modified.

H. A. GARFIELD,

United States Fuel Admini trator.

Order of the United States Fuel Administrator of Jan. 31, 1918, Effective Feb. 11, 1918, Amending, by Excluding Petroleum and its Products from the Operation thereof, the Regulation of Jan. 17, 1918, Making Provision for a More Adequate Supply of Fuel for Railroad, etc.

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 31, 1918.

It appearing to the United States Fuel Administrator that in view of the finding and determination by the President of the United States that it is essential to license the importation, manufacture, storage and distribution of fuel oil, and of the President's announcement to that effect, the prohibition against the use of fuel set forth in the order of January 17, 1918, entitled "Regulation making provision for a more adequate supply of fuel for railroads, domestic consumers, public utilities and other uses necessary to national security", should not apply to fuel oil (including gas oil) in any of its various forms.

The United States Fuel Administrator hereby orders and directs that, until further or other order of the said United States Fuel Administrator, the said regulation of January 17, restricting the burning of fuel or the use of power derived from fuel, shall in no way, manner or form apply to petroleum or its products on or after the effective date hereof.

Effective February 11, 1918.

H. A. GARFIELD, United States Fuel Administrator.

Order of the United States Fuel Admini trator of Feb. 13, 1918, Su pending, Subject to certain Exceptions therein stated, the Operation of Sections III, IV, V, and VI, of the Regulation of Jan. 17, 1918, Making Provision for a more Adequate Supply of Fuel for Railroad, etc.

WASHINGTON, D. C., February 13, 1918.

It appearing to the United States Fuel Administrator that, in view of the relief afforded by his order of January 17, the moderation in weather conditions, the effect of the embargoes authorized by the Director General of Railroads on January 23, and the consequent improvement in transportation conditions already realized, and the probability that such conditions will be improved further by more seasonable weather and a continuance of the embargoes, the requirements relative to the use hereafter of fuel on Mondays may be for the present suspended, except as any State Fuel Administrator may otherwise direct with respect to his own state on account of local or special conditions therein,

The United States Fuel Administrator, acting under authority of an Executive order of the President of the United States, dated 23 August, 1917, appointing said administrator, and in furtherance of the purpose of said order and of the act of Congress therein referred to and approved August 10, 1917,

Hereby orders and directs that the provisions of section III of the Regulation of January 17, 1918, entitled "Regulation making provision for a more adequate supply of fuel for railroads, domestic consumers, public utilities, and other uses necessary to the national security," so far as said section relates to any of the Mondays, therein mentioned or referred to, subsequent to the date of this order, and that Sections IV, V and VI of said regulation, and that the regulation dated 19 January, 1918 and entitled "Regulation making the provisions of Section IV of the Fuel Administrator's regulation of January 17, 1918, applicable to theatres and other places of amusement, referred to in Paragraph (c) of said Section, upon Tuesdays instead of Mondays" are all hereby suspended until and subject to further orders of the United States Fuel Administrator; provided, however, that the New England Fuel Administrator and any state administrator may each within his respective jurisdiction con tinue in effect, by an order or regulation issued by such New England or state admin istrator, all or any of the provisions above mentioned and referred to of said regulation dated January 17, 1918, or said regulation dated 19 January, 1918, for such period not later than Monday, March 25th, as they may severally determine, subject, however, to modification by them respectively within their respective jurisdictions, and subject also to modification at any time by the United States Fuel Administrator. Nothing in this order shall affect the continued force and operation of Section 1 of the regulation first hereinbefore mentioned; nor shall anything in this order affect any orders or regulations of the New England Fuel Administrator or of any State Fuel Administrator respecting or limiting the use of coal or coke heretofore or hereafter made for the purpose of conserving coal or coke within their respective jurisdictions because of special or local conditions therein.

H. A. GARFIELD, United States Fuel Administrator.

Order of the United States Fuel Administrator of March 4, 1918, Effective March 5, 1918, Modifying Section I, of the Regulation of Jan. 17, 1918, Making Provision for a More Adequate Supply of Fuel for Railroads, etc.

WASHINGTON, D. C., March 4, 1918.

It appearing to the United States Fuel Administrator that there is no longer need for the application of the provisions of Section I of the regulation referred to in the title hereof to certain portions of the country in which, by Section IX of said regulation, the same was made effective, but that in the remaining portions of the country in which said Section I was originally made effective the provisions of said Section I should be extended to all contracts and orders for coal made or accepted after January 17, as well as to such contracts and orders then on hand.

The United States Fuel Administrator, acting under authority of an Executive order of the President of the United States, dated 23 August, 1917, appointing said administrator, and in furtherance of the purpose of said order and of the act of Congress therein referred to and approved August 10, 1917,

Hereby orders and directs, That the provision of Section I of the regulation of January 17, 1918, entitled "Regulation making provision for a more adequate supply of fuel for railroads, domestic consumers, public utilities, and other uses necessary to the national security," shall on and after March 5, 1918, be applicable only to producers of coal conducting coal operations in the States of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Ohio, and in that part of Kentucky known as the eastern Kentucky coal field. Producers of coal in the districts above named shall continue subject to the provisions of said Section I until further notice in respect to filling all contracts and orders, whether the same were on hand on January 17 or have been made or accepted since that date, including also all future contracts or orders hereafter made or accepted by them. H. A. GARFIELD, United States Fuel Administrator.

TITLE VIII.

ORDERS AND REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF ANTHRACITE.

Allotments of Domestic Sizes of Anthracite Coal for the Coal Year 1918-1919: 1

After the completion of an investigation into the prospective anthracite coal production for the coal year 1918-1919, the United States Fuel Administration, on June 1, 1918, announced an apportionment of that prospective production among the different sections of the United States.

These allotments were based on the consumption in the respective districts during the coal year 1916-1917, with such increases and decreases as changed requirements within each particular district, and the necessity of eliminating long hauls, demanded. The apportionment covers only domestic sizes of anthracite, the balance of the anthracite production being required for war industries, public utilities and the army and navy.

The allotments for the particular sections in gross tons were as follows:

The plans for distribution for this year will follow the lines of distribution for the twelve months commencing with April 1, 1916. Figures are now being prepared, and will within a few days be sent to all State Administrators, which will show in total the tonnage of domestic sizes of anthracite coal allotted to that particular State and in detail to each community in the State of five hundred people or more.

Based on this, it is not going to be difficult to determine exactly what each community will receive, and the Local Administrator in the community will determine any change in distribution among the dealers that may be necessary.

Unless suggestions are received from him the distribution will follow the normal lines of the twelve months commencing with April 1, 1916, and the coal will be shipped by the regular coal shipping companies through the regular channels of distribution to the dealer. (Extract from circular letter sent out by Distribution Division of United States Fuel Administration.)

2 Saving; from the estimates made, permitted a subsequent allotment of 146,000 tons to Iowa.

Order of the United States Fuel Administrator of July 31, 1918, Effective Aug. 3, 1918,

Establishing an Anthracite Coal Zone Regulating the Distribution and Apportionment of Anthracite Coal from Coal Docks in the States of Minnesota, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and Wisconsin on the Western Bank of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 31, 1918.

It appearing to the United States Fuel Administration that it is essential to the national security and defense, the successful prosecution of the war, and the support and maintenance of the Army and Navy, that the greatest possible supply of anthracite coal should be produced in the United States; that such production, even though all other conditions necessary therefor are present and capable of employment is, because of the locations of the mines and the nature of the commodity, limited in part by the capacity of existing transportation facilities for the movement of the coal from points of production to points of delivery and consumption; that the amount of production, notwithstanding a continuance of the other present favorable conditions therefor, can be immediately increased by means of the greater utilization of coal cars, locomotives and other railroad facilities; and that among such means are the elimination of unnecessarily long hauls and of avoidable cross hauls of loaded and empty coal cars, and the provision of the necessary supply of such coal for each consuming section of the country from the one or more coal fields nearest thereto, or most readily accessible thereto, either in actual distance or in the freedom from congestion and delays in rail movements between such coal fields and such section; and that apportionment of the anthracite coal produced in the United States will facilitate the movement of anthracite coal and is necessary for the production of a sufficient quantity of anthracite coal to aid in the successful prosecution of the war,

The United States Fuel Administrator, acting under authority of an Executive Order of the President of the United States, dated 23 August, 1917, appointing said Administrator, and of subsequent Executive Orders, and in furtherance of the purpose of said orders and of the Act of Congress therein referred to and approved August 10, 1917,

Hereby orders and directs that, until further or other order of the United States Fuel Administrator, and subject to revocation and modification by him from time to time and at any time hereafter, every shipper (which term shall include every person, firm, corporation or association shipping as owner, lessee or purchaser of any coal from lake docks) of anthracite coal from any of the coal docks in the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois and the Upper Peninsula of the State of Michigan, located along the western bank of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior shall, except as hereinafter provided, sell, ship and distribute such coal only to dealers and consumers for use and consumption within the following described section of the United States, viz: (1) The States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin: (2) The Upper Peninsula of the State of Michigan;

(3) That portion of the State of Iowa located on and north of a line coincident with the Illinois Central Railroad from Dubuque to Sioux City, Iowa;

(4) The following named counties within the State of Illinois: Cook, Stephenson, Winnebago, Boone, McHenry, Lake, Ogle, Dekalb, Kane, Dupage, Lee, Kendall and Will.

This order shall be effective on and after August 3, 1918.

H. A. GARFIELD, United States Fuel Administrator.