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 PROCLAMATIONS-SEPT. 26, 28, 1939 FIRE PREVENTION WEEK-1939 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, in spite of efforts to curtail the number of accidental fires in the United States, many lives are still lost each year as a result of fires which could have been prevented; and WHEREAS the damage caused by fires in this country during 1937 has been estimated at approximately $254,000,000, and the estimate for 1938 is in excess of $265,000,000; and WHEREAS a redoubled effort is necessary in order to lessen the serious menace to safety of life and the enormous waste of property that result from destructive fires: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and designate the week beginning October 8, 1939, as Fire Prevention Week, and I request the appropriate public authorities, civic groups, educators, and others to cooperate in bringing to the attention of all the people the importance of taking measures to eliminate fire hazards, to abolish dangerous practices and procedures which may lead to the occurrence of needless fires, and to maintain a special alertness in every situation in which a destructive fire may occur. 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 26" day of September 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: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. AMENDMENT OF REGULATIONS RELATING TO MIGRATORY BIRDS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA September 26, 1939 [No. 2366] Preamble. Fire Prevention Week. Designation of week beginning October 8, 1939, as. September 28, 199 [No. 23671 A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Secretary of the Interior, under authority and Preamble. direction of section 3 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), as amended by the act of June 20, 1936, 49 Stat. 16 U. . C.i 704; 1555, the administration of which, as amended, was transferred to the Supp. V . 704. said Secretary by Reorganization Plan No. II, submitted to the Congress on May 9, 1939, has adopted and submitted to me a regula- 3stat. I 1 . tion amending Regulation 4 of the Regulations approved by Procla- v, si 33 (note).P mation No. 2345 of August 11, 1939, which he has determined to be Ant, p. 2615. a suitable regulation permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, exportation, and importation of migratory birds and parts, nests, and eggs thereof, included in the terms of the Convention be- tween the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916, and the Convention be- 3sta-vm. 1 This Proclamation affects Parts 1 and 2 of Title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations. 54 STAT.] 2661

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