In accordance with a request of the Secretary of the Navy, concurred in by the United States Shipping Board, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to transfer the German vessel Atlas, now at San Francisco, to the commandant of the twelfth naval district, for use in harbor patrol.
Signature of Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson 
The White House,
May 16, 1917.

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