The General Manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation ( Capps ) to the Owners of American Shipyards 1
[Telegram]
Washington
,
August 3, 1917
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By virtue of an act approved June 15, 1917, and authority delegated to Emergency Fleet Corporation by Executive Order of July 11, 1917, all power-driven cargo-carrying and passenger vessels above 2,500 tons dead-weight capacity under construction in your yards and materials, machinery, equipment and outfit thereto pertaining are hereby requisitioned by the United States and will be completed with all practicable dispatch. Letter follows.
W. L. Capps
- The Official Bulletin, Washington, Aug. 4, 1917 (Vol. 1, No. 73), p. 1.↩