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 PROCLAMATIONS-MAY 9, 1938 [52 STAT. May 9, 1938 [No. 2284] Pea Island Migra- tory Waterfowl Ref- uge, N. C. Preamble. 40 Stat. 755. 16U. .C.C. 703- 711; Supp. III, §§703- 705, 707, 708, 709a. Regulation desig- nating certain lands and waters within, etc., as closed area. 40 Stat. 755. 16 U.S. C .§ 704. Description. CLOSED AREA UNDER THE MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT NORTH CAROLINA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Secretary of Agriculture has submitted to me for approval the following regulation adopted by him on March 16, 1938, under authority of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755): REGULATION DESIGNATING AS CLOSED AREA CERTAIN LANDS AND WATERS WITHIN, ADJACENT TO, AND IN THE VICINITY OF PEA ISLAND MIGRATORY WATERFOWL REFUGE, NORTH CAROLINA By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 3 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755, U. S. C., title 16, sec. 704), and in conformity with Regulation 4 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Regulations, I, H. A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, do hereby designate as closed area in or on which hunting, taking, capturing, or killing or attempting to hunt, take, capture, or kill, migratory birds is prohibited, all areas of land and water in Dare County, North Carolina, not now owned or controlled by the United States within the following-described exterior boundary: Beginning at a point on the north end of Pea Island on the south shore of Oregon Inlet, from which point a U. S. Biological Survey standard concrete post set for a witness corer bears south 0.50 chain distant; Thence from said initial point, along the east side of Pea Island, with the meanders of Oregon Inlet and the Atlantic Coast, N.81° 29' E., 7.72 chains; S. 82° 11' E., 10.81 chains; S. 71° 52' E., 12.00 chains; S. 28° 29' E., 20.00 chains; S. 28° 53' E., 26.43 chains; S. 31° 14' E., 20.33 chains; S. 36° 56' E., 12.57 chains; S. 32° 43' E., 20.00 chains; S. 31° 34' E., 40.71 chains; S. 28° 12' E., 80.00 chains; S. 32° 07' E., 8.59 chains; S. 20° 59' E., 40.00 chains; S. 23° 06' E., 15.21 chains; S. 16° 20' E., 37.87 chains; S. 16° 21' E., 215.39 chains; S. 14° 24' E., 50.00 chains; S. 5° 58' E., 40.00 chains; S. 8° 29' W., 17.80 chains, to a point on the south end of Pea Island on the north shore of New Inlet; 1546

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