War Trade Board Files
Authorization of the Exports Administrative Board, October 9, 1917
After a discussion, the board authorized the director [of the Bureau of Export Licenses] to instruct the collectors of customs that, under the law, no vessel should be permitted to clear from a United States port without a license for her cargo, bunker fuel, sea stores and ship’s stores (but only to the extent that the same are subject to license under the first division or second division, as the case may be, of the proclamation of August 27, 1917), notwithstanding that such cargo, bunker fuel, sea stores or ship’s stores were not taken on board at a United States port—the fact that they have been brought into a United States harbor being sufficient to subject them to the operation of the statute.