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Headquarters

Western Defense Command

and Fourth Army

Presidio of San Francisco, California

Public Proclamation No. 3

March 24, 1942

TO: The people within the States of Washington, Oregon, Cali-

fornia, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Arizona, and

the Publie Generally:

Wuereas, By Public Proclamation No. 1, dated March 2, 1942,

this headquarters, there were designated and established Military

Areas Nos. 1 and 2 and Zones thereof, and

Wuereas, By Public Proclamation No. 2, dated March 16, 1942,

this headquarters, there were designated and established Military

Areas Nos. 8, 4, 5 and 6 and Zones thereof, and

WHEREAS, The present situation within these Military Areas and

Zones requires as a matter of military necessity the establishment

of certain regulations pertaining to all enemy aliens and all per--

sons of Japanese ancestry within said Military Areas and Zones

thereof:

Now, Tuererore, I, J. L. DeWrrr, Lieutenant General, U. S.

Army, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the President of

the United States and by the Secretary of War and my powers

and prerogatives as Commanding General, Western Defense Com-

mand, do hereby declare and establish the following regulations

covering the conduct to be observed by all alien Japanese, all alien

Germans, all alien Italians, and all persons of Japanese ancestry (c)

residing or being within the Military Areas above described, or

such portions thereof as are hereinafter mentioned:

1. From and after 6:00 A. M., March 27, 1942, all alien

Japanese, all alien Germans, all alien Italians, and all per-

sons of Japanese ancestry residing or being within the geo-

graphical limits of Military Area No. 1, or within any of the Zones

established within Military Area No. 2, as those areas are defined

and described in Public Proclamation No. 1, dated March 2, 1942,

this headquarters, or within the geographical limits of the desig-

nated Zones established within Military Areas Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 6,

as those areas are defined and described in Public Proclamation

No. 2, dated March 16, 1942, this headquarters, or within any of

such additional Zones as may hereafter be similarly designated

and defined, shall be within their place of residence between the

hours of 8:00 P. M. and 6:00 A. M., which period is hereinafter

referred to as the hours of curfew.

2. At all other times all such persons shall be only at their place

of residence or employment or traveling between those places or

within a distance of not more than five miles from their place of

residence.

3. Nothing in paragraph 2 shall be construed to prohibit any

of the above specified persons from visiting the nearest United

States Post Office, United States Employment Service Office, or

office operated or maintained by the Wartime Civil Control Ad-

ministration, for the purpose of transacting any business or the

making of any arrangements reasonably necessary to accomplish

evacuation; nor be construed to prohibit travel under duly issued

change of residence notice and travel permit provided for in para-

graph 5 of Public Proclamations Numbers 1 and 2. Travel per-

formed in change of residence to a place outside the prohibited

and restricted areas may be performed without regard to cur-

few hours.

4. Any person violating these regulations will be subject to im-

mediate exclusion from the Military Areas and Zones specified in

paragraph 1 and to the criminal penalties provided by Public

Law No. 503, 77th Congress, approved March 21, 1942, entitled:

``An Act to Provide a Penalty for Violation of Restrictions or

Orders with Respect to Persons Entering, Remaining in, Leaving

or Committing Any Act in Military Areas or Zone.'' In the ease

of any alien enemy, such person will in addition be subject to

immediate apprehension and internment.

5. By subsequent proclamation or order there will be pre-

scribed those classes of persons who will be entitled to apply for |

exemptions from exclusion orders hereafter to be issued. Persons

granted such exemption will likewise and at the same time also be

exempted from the operation of the curfew regulations of this

proclamation.

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6. After March 31, 1942, no person of Japanese ancestry shall

have in his possession or use or operate at any time or place within

any of the Military Areas 1 to 6 inclusive, as established and

defined in Public Proclamations Nos. 1 and 2, above mentioned

any of the following items:

(a) Firearms.

(b) Weapons or implements of war or component parts thereof.

(c) Ammunition.

(d) Bombs.

(e) Explosives or the component parts thereof.

(f) Short-wave radio receiving sets having a frequency of

1,750 kiloeyeles or greater or of 540 kilocycles or less.

(g) Radio transmitting sets.

(h) Signal devices.

(i) Codes or ciphers.

(j) Cameras.

Any such person found in possession of any of the above named

items in violation of the foregoing will be subject to the criminal

penalties provided by Public Law No. 503, 77th Congress,

approved March 21, 1942, entitled: ``An Act to Provide a Penalty

for Violation of Restrictions or Orders with Respect to Persons

Entering, Remaining in, Leaving or Committing Any Act in

Military Areas or Zone."'

7. The regulations herein preseribed with reference to the ob-

servance of curfew hours by enemy aliens, are substituted for and

supersede the regulations of the United States Attorney General

heretofore in force in certain limited areas. All curfew exemp-

tions heretofore granted by the United States Attorneys are

hereby revoked effective as of 6:00 a. m., PWT, March 27, 1942.

8. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is designated as the |

agency to enforce the foregoing provisions. It is requested that

the civil police within the states affected by this Proclamation

assist the Federal Bureau of Investigation by reporting to it the

names and addresses of all persons believed to have violated these

regulations.

J. L. DeEWirr

Lieutenant General, U. S. Army

Commanding