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 2682 January 24, 1940 [No. 2383] Preamble. 16U.S.. §C 703- 711; Supp. V, §§ 703- 709a. 6U. S.C., Supp.V, § 133t (note). Regulation desig- nating additions to Susquehanna Migra- tory Waterfowl Closed Area, Md. 16 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 704. Ante, p. 2,28. Bush River Unit. PROCLAMATIONS--JAN. 13, 24, 1940 [54 STAT. 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 thirteenth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL 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 Acting Secretary of the Interior has submitted to me for approval the following regulation adopted by him on December 12, 1939, under authority of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755, 16 U. S . C . 704), and Reorganization Plan No. II (53 Stat. 1431): REGULATION DESIGNATING CERTAIN PARTS OF BUSH RIVER AND OF CHESAPEAKE BAY AS ADDITIONS TO 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 (53 Stat. 1431), there are hereby designated as closed areas, additions to the Susquehanna Migratory Waterfowl Closed Area established by Proclamation No. 2347, of August 24, 1939, in or on which pur- suing, hunting, taking, capturing, or killing, or attempting to take, capture, or kill migratory birds is not permitted, two areas of land and water, being a part of Bush River and parts of Chesa- peake Bay, in Harford County, Maryland, bounded as follows: Bush River Unit Beginning at the south corer of the United States Army Reservation, Aberdeen, Maryland, in Chesapeake Bay, 105 yards (approximate) from the south end of Pooles Island; Thence northwesterly 280 yards (approximate) in Chesa- peake Bay with the southwest boundary of the United States Army Reservation; Thence N. 2%° W., 3,170 yards (approximate) in Chesa- peake Bay, to a corner 440 yards distant east of the shore at Robins Point, at the south end of Gunpowder Neck; Thence northerly in Chesapeake Bay with a line parallel to and 440 yards distant offshore from the east side of Gun- powder Neck passing Fords Point, to the mouth of Bush River at Lego Point; Thence northerly m Bush River with a line parallel to and 440 yards distant offshore from Gunpowder Neck passing Sandy Point, to a corer which bears N. 46° E. (approxi- mate), 440 yards distant offshore from Briery Point; Thence. 46° W. (aproximate), 440 yards to the shore line at Brry Point, on Gunpowder Neck;

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