easures which may be
adopted by the constitutional authorities in prosecuting the war to a
successful issue and in obtaining a secure and just peace;

And acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the
Constitution of the United States and the said sections of the
Revised Statutes:

I do hereby further proclaim and direct that the conduct to be
observed on the part of the United States toward all natives,
citizens, denizens or subjects of Germany, being male, of the age of
fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and
not actually naturalized, who for the purpose of this proclamation
and under such sections of the Revised Statutes are termed alien
enemies, shall be as follows:

All alien enemies are enjoined to preserve the peace
toward the United States and to refrain from crime against
the public safety and from violating the laws of the
United States and of the States and Territories thereof,
and to refrain from actual hostility or giving
information, aid or comfort to the enemies of the United
States, and to comply strictly with the regulations which
are hereby or which may be from time to time promulgated
by the President, and so long as they shall conduct
themselves in accordance with law they shall be
undisturbed in the peaceful pursuit of their lives and
occupations and be accorded the consideration due to all
peaceful and law-abiding persons, except so far as
restrictions may be necessary for their own protection and
for the safety of the United States, and toward such alien
enemies as conduct themselves in accordance with law all
citizens of the United States are enjoined to preserve the
peace and to treat them with all such friendliness as may
be compatible with loyalty and allegiance to the United
States.

And all alien enemies who fail to conduct themselves as so
enjoined, in addition to all other penalties prescribed by
law, shall be liable to restraint or to give security or
to remove and depart from the United States in the manner
prescribed by Sections 4069 and 4070 of the Revised
Statutes and as prescribed in the regulations duly
promulgated by the President.

And, pursuant to the authority vested in me, I hereby declare and
establish the following regulations, which I find necessary in the
premises and for the public safety:

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