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 PROCLAMATIONS-NOV. 7, 1940 WHEREAS satisfactory proof was received by me from the Gov- ernment of Haiti on October 19, 1940, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of Haiti upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in such vessels, from the United States, or from any foreign country: Hasionoti or NOW, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the discriminating duties United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me ostsnnage and im- by the above-quoted statutory provisions, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and im- posts within the United States are suspended and discontinued so far as respects the vessels of Haiti and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in said vessels into the United States from Effective date; du- Haiti or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from October 19, 1940, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes shall be continued, and no longer. IN TESTIMONY 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 7t h day of November 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-fifth. By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. November 7. 1940 [No. 2439] Preamble. 16U.8.C.II703- 711; Supp. V, it 703- 709a. U. 8. C., Supp.V, i 133t (note). Wnilapa National Wildlife Refuge, Wash. Regulation desig- nating certain lands and waters adjacent to, as closed area. 39 Stat. 1702. Ane, pp. 2717, 2725. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT CLOSED AREA UNDER THE MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT WASHINGTON 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 October 22, 1940, 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 AS CLOSED AREA UNDER THE MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT CERTAIN LANDS AND WATERS ADJACENT TO AND IN THE VICINITY OF THE WILLAPA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, WASHINGTON I, E. K. Burlew, Acting Secretary of the Interior, after con- sideration of the exigencies of the migratory waterfowl and other migratory birds included in the terms of the Convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migra- tory birds, concluded August 16, 1916, resident upon and resort- ing to the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge, in Pacific County, Washington, which was established as the Willapa Harbor Migra- tory Bird Refuge by Executive Order No. 7541, of January 22, 1937, and enlarged by Executive Order No. 7721, of October 8, 1937, and the designation of which was changed to Willapa National Wildlife Refuge by Proclamation No. 2416, of July 25, 1940, have determined that to allow the hunting, taking, cap- turing, or killing of migratory waterfowl or other migratory birds, or the attempt to hunt, take, capture, or kill such water- 2756 [54 STAT.

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