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 PROCLAMATIONS Aug 24,1939 Sept. 5, 1939 of land and water of Chesapeake Bay, in Harford and Cecil Counties, Maryland, to be known as the Susquehanna Migratory Waterfowl Closed Area, bounded as follows: Beginning at a point in Chesapeake Bay on the west side of Elk Neck, 440 yards distant from the shore line thereof, at latitude 39030' N.; thence in a southwesterly direction with a line parallel to and 440 yards distant from the shore on the west side of Elk Neck, to a point off Turkey Point, the southernmost extremity of Elk Neck, from which the naviga- tion bell on said point bears S. 70° E. 2,400 feet distant (approximate); thence N. 623° W. (approximate) to a point in Chesapeake Bay 440 yards distant from the northeast side of Spesutie Island at Locust Point; thence north and west along the north shore of Spesutie Island and 440 yards distant therefrom, to a point opposite the center of Spesutie Narrows, and thence westerly and northerly and 1,000 yards distant from the east side of the channel lying close to the west shore, to the said latitude 39030' N. (at a point 1,000 yards east of said channel); and thence due east to the place of beginning. AND WHEREAS upon consideration it appears that the foregoing regulation will tend to effectuate the purposes of the aforesaid Migra- tory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918: 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 the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing regu- lation of the Secretary of the Interior. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 24" day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. PROCLAIMING THE NEUTRALITY OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE WAR BETWEEN GERMANY AND FRANCE; POLAND; AND THE UNITED KINGDOM, INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS a state of war unhappily exists between Germany and France; Poland; and the United Kingdom, India, Australia and New Zealand. AND WHEREAS the United States is on terms of friendship and amity with the contending powers, and with the persons inhabiting their several dominions; AND WHEREAS there are nationals of the United States residing within the territories or dominions of each of the said belligerents, and carrying on commerce, trade, or other business or pursuits there- in; Description. Regulation ap- proved and pro- claimed. September, 1939 [No. 2348] Preamble. Existence of state of war. Pos, pp. 2643, 23 269 2704 2707, 2764. 54 STAT.] 2629

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