; relating to authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe military areas), Public Proclamation No. 1, and Public Law 503, on March 27, 1942, General DeWitt issued Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34, making it a crime for Japanese Americans to leave Military Area No. 1. (5) On May 3, 1942, under the authority of Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34, General DeWitt issued another military order making it a crime for Japanese Americans to remain in Military Area No. 1 and ordering those Japanese Americans into make-shift detention centers, allowing those individuals to take only that which they could carry. (6) The order of May 3, 1942, created an impossible predicament for Japanese Americans— (A) as those orders were diametrically contradictory because— (i) simultaneously, Japanese Americans were made criminals whether they left their homes or did not leave their homes; and (ii) obedience to one part of Public Law 503 would necessarily violate the other