CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922 — Page 225

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CHINA,

CONFIDENTIAL.

[F 1003/110/10]

No. 1.

225

[March 10.]

SECTION 2.

Sir A. Geddes to the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. (Received March 10.)

(No. 169.) Sir,

Washington, February 21, 1922.

I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith a copy of public resolution, No. 37, prohibiting the exportation of arms or munitions of war to certain countries.

I have, &c. (For the Ambassador),

H. G. CHILTON.

Enclosure in No. 1,

Public Resolution, No. 37, 67th Congress.

JOINT resolution to prohibit the exportation of arms or munitions of war from the United States to certain countries, and for other purposes :-

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States

of America in Congress assembled:

That whenever the President finds that in any American country, or in any country in which the United States exercises extra-territorial jurisdiction, conditions of domestic violence exist, which are or may be promoted by the use of arms or munitions of war procured from the United States, and makes proclamation thereof, it shall be unlawful to export, except under such limitations and exceptions as the President prescribes, any arms or munitions of war from any place in the United States to such country until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress.

Section 2. Whoever exports any arms or munitious of war in violation of section 1 shall, on conviction, be punished by fine not exceeding 10,000 dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both.

Section 3. The joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution to prohibit the export of coal or other material used in war from any seaport of the United States," approved the 22nd April, 1898, and the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution to amend the joint resolution to prohibit the export of coal or other material used in war from any seaport of the United States," approved the 14th March, 1912, are repealed. Approved the 31st January, 1922.

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