Every person who aids or abets in the violation of this order shall be deemed equally guilty with the master of the vessel.

No Chinese person shall be allowed to enter into or remain in the Canal Zone, except as provided in this order; and any Chinese person found in the Canal Zone in contravention of the provisions of this order, shall be punished as…

Any Chinese person who shall come into the Canal Zone, with the intention of passing into the Republic of Panama, in contravention of the laws of the Republic of Panama, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this section.

A violation of any of the provisions of this order shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $500.00 or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.

I do hereby admonish all citizens of the United States and every person to abstain from every violation of the provisions of said Act of Congress.

I have found that there exists a national emergency arising from the insufficiency of maritime tonnage to carry the products of the farms, forests, mines and manufacturing industries of the United States, to their consumers abroad and…

I do hereby enjoin upon all officers of the United States, charged with the execution of the laws thereof, the utmost diligence in preventing violations of said Act.

We shall not believe that they are hostile to us unless and until we are obliged to believe it.

I shall take the liberty of coming again before the Congress, to ask that authority be given me to use any means that may be necessary for the protection of our seamen and our people in the prosecution of their peaceful and legitimate…

I refuse to believe that it is the intention of the German authorities to do in fact what they have warned us they will feel at liberty to do.

We do not desire any hostile conflict with the Imperial German Government.

I can do nothing less.