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Headquarters

Western Defense Command

and Fourth Army

Presidio of San Francisco, California

Public Proclamation No. 6

JUNE 2, 1942

TO: The People within the State of California, and to the Public Gen-

erally:

WHEREAS, by Public Proclamation No. 1, dated March 2, 1942,

this headquarters, there was designated and established Military Area

No. 2, and

WHEREAS, the present military situation requires, as a matter of

military necessity, additional regulations pertaining to all persons of Japa-

nese ancestry, both alien and non-alien, who are in that portion of Mili-

tary Area No. 2 lying within the State of California:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, J. L. DeWitt, 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 pre-

rogatives as Commanding General, Western Defense Command, do hereby

declare and establish the following additional regulations covering the

conduct to be observed by all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien

and non-alien, residing or being in that portion of the State of California

lying within the Military Area above described:

1. Effective at 12:00 o'clock noon, P. W. T., June 2, 1942, all alien

Japanese and persons of Japanese ancestry who are within the said Cali-

fornia portion of Military Area No. 2, be and they are hereby prohibited

from leaving that area for any purpose until and to the extent that a

future proclamation or order of this headquarters shall so permit or direct.

2. No person of Japanese ancestry, whether alien or non-alien, who

is now outside of Military Area No. 1 or outside of the said California

portion of Military Area No. 2, shall enter either of said areas unless

expressly authorized so to do by this headquarters.

3. The hours between 8 p. m. and 6 a. m. are hereby desig-

nated as the hours of curfew. Effective at 12:00 o'clock noon,

P. W. T., June 2, 1942, all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and

non-alien, residing or being within the said California portion of Mili-

tary Area No. 2, shall, during the hours of curfew, be within their

places of residence or, if any such persons have no places of resi-

dence therein, then they shall be in their temporary places of abode.

At all times other than during the hours of curfew, or except as

expressly authorized by order of this headquarters, all such persons

shall be not more than 10 miles from their places of residence or, if any

such persons have no places of residence, then not more than 10 miles

from their temporary places of abode, unless traveling between such

points and the places of their regular employment.

4. Nothing in paragraph 3 hereof shall be construed as prohib-

iting any of the above-specified persons from visiting, during non-

curfew hours, the nearest United States Post Office, United States

Employment Service Office or office operated or maintained by the

Wartime Civil Control Administration, State and Federal courts and

public offices, for the purpose of transacting any business or the

making of any arrangements necessary to prepare for evacuation or

to accomplish compliance with exclusion orders hereafter to be issued.

5. The following classes of persons of Japanese ancestry are

hereby authorized to be temporarily exempted or deferred from future

exclusion and evacuation upon furnishing satisfactory proof as provided

in Proclamation No. 5, dated March 30, 1942:

(a) Patients in hospitals or confined elsewhere, and too ill

or incapacitated to be removed therefrom without

danger to life;

(b) Inmates of orphanages and the totally deaf, dumb or

blind.

6. All alien Japanese and all persons of Japanese ancestry will be

excluded from said California portion of Military Area No. 2 by future

orders or proclamations of this Headquarters.

7. Any person violating this Proclamation will be subject to the crim-

inal 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 Zones." In the

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

diate apprehension and internment.

J. L.. DewiITT

Lieutenant General, U. S. Army

Commanding