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 2956 July 13, 1928 PROCLAMATIONS, 1928. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 6th day of July, in the ;year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifty-third. By the President: FRANK B KELLOGG Secretary of State. CALVIN COOLIDGE By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Protection or mlgra· WHEREAS, The Secretary of Agriculture, by virtue of the author- t°Vr=~ie. ity vested in him by section three of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Vol.40,p.7M. (40 Stat., 755), has submitted to me for approval, a regulation further Vol. 39, p. 1702. J amendatory of the regulations approved and proclaimed uly 31, Open seasons. Time prescribed. AnI<!, pp. 2901,2905, 2922, 2943, amended. Waterfowl. 1918, which the Secretary of Agnculture has determined to be a suitable amendatory regulation permitting and governing the hunt- ing, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, and export of said birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, as follows: Regulation 4, Open Seasons on and Possession of Certain Migratory Game Birds is hereby amended so as to read as follows: REGULATION 4. -OPEN SEASONS ON AND POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS. For the purpose of this regulation, each period of time herein prescribed as an open season shall be construed to include the first and last days thereof. Waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), rails, coot, gallinules, woodcock, Wilson snipe or jacksnipe, and mourning doves may be taken each day from half an hour before sunrise to sunset during the open seasons prescribed therefor in this regulation by the means and in the numbers permitted by regulations 3 and 5 hereof, respectively, and when so taken may be possessed any day in any State, Territory,or District during the period constituting the open season where killed and for an additional period of 10 days next succeeding said open season, but no such bird shall be possessed in a State, Territory, or District at a time when such State, Territory, or District prohibits the possession thereof. Waterfowl (except woOd duck, eider ducks, and swans), coot, and Wilson snipe or jacksnipe.-The open seasons for waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), coot, and Wilson snipe or jacksnipe shall be as follows: Geographical limits, In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts (except in tiona. Nantucket and Dukes Counties, and Barnstable County south and east of the Cape Cod Canal), Ohio, West Virginia, Michigan, Wiscon- sin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montan'U. Nevada, and that portion of Idaho comprising the counties of J:Soundary, Bonner, Kootenai, Benewah, and Shoshone the open season shall be from September 16 to December 31; In New York (except Long Island) the open season shall be from September 24 to January 7;

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