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 PROCLAMATIONS-AUG. 21, 24, 1939 Canton Island. Period for estab- lishing adequate ship- ping service for, ex- tended. Extension of U. S. coastwise laws to, de- ferred. 41 Stat. 997. 46 U.. C. 877; Supp. V, 877. August 24, 1939 INo. 2347] Preamble. 18U.8.0.5f703- 711; Supp. V, i1703- 709a. 53 Stat. 1431. 5 U. 8. C., Supp. V, § 133t (note). Susquehanna Mi- gratory Waterfowl Cloed Area, Mdreg- ulation designating. 1Po, p. 2N,. steamship service at reasonable rates to accommodate the commerce and the passenger travel of said islands and to maintain and operate such service until it can be taken over and operated and maintained upon satisfactory terms by private capital and enterprise:PROVIDED, That if adequate shipping service is not established by February 1, 1922, the President shall extend the period herein allowed for the establishment of such service in the case of any island Territory or possession for such time as may be necessary for the establishment of adequate shipping facilities therefor * * *"; WHEREAS an adequate shipping service to accommodate the commerce and the passenger travel of Canton Island has not been established as provided in the aforesaid section; WHEREAS the extension of the coastwise laws of the United States to Canton Island, as provided in the aforesaid section, is dependent upon the establishment of such adequate shipping service; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 21 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, do hereby declare and proclaim that the period for the establish- ment of an adequate shipping service for Canton Island is extended to January 1, 1940, and that the extension of the coastwise laws of the United States to Canton Island is deferred to January 1, 1940. 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 21" day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: SUMNER WELLES Acting Secretary of State. CLOSED AREA UNDER THE MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT MARYLAND BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Secretary of the Interior has submitted to me for approval the following regulation adopted by him on August 11, 1939, under authority of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), and Reorganization Plan No. II, transmitted to the Congress May 9, 1939: REGULATION DESIGNATING A CERTAIN PART OF CHESAPEAKE BAY AS THE SUSQUEHANNA MIGRATORY WATERFOWL CLOSED AREA, MARYLAND By virtue of and pursuant to the authority contained in section 3 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755, 16 U. S. C. 704), and Reorganization Plan No. II, transmitted by the President to the Congress May 9, 1939, there is hereby designated as closed area in or on which pursuing, hunting, taing, capturing, or killing, or attempting to take, capture, or Ill, migratory birds is not permitted, all that area 2628 [54 STAT.

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