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 PROCLAMATIONS-AUG. 9, 16, 1941 WHEREAS, following ratification by the United States of America and certain other countries, the Convention, in accordance with Article 24 thereof, came into force with respect to the United States of America and certain other countries on January 1, 1933; and WHEREAS the provisions of the Convention were carefully for- mulated "to promote safety of life and property at sea" in time of peace by regulating the competitive loading of merchant ships em- ployed in the customary channels of international trade; and WHEREAS the conditions envisaged by the Convention have been, for the time being, almost wholly destroyed, and the partial and imperfect enforcement of the Convention can operate only to prejudice the victims of aggression, whom it is the avowed purpose of the United States of America to aid; and WHEREAS it is an implicit condition to the binding effect of the Convention that those conditions envisaged by it should continue without such material change as has in fact occurred; and WHEREAS under approved principles of international law it has become, by reason of such changed conditions, the right of the United States of America to declare the Convention suspended and inoperative: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, exercising in behalf of the United States of America an unquestioned right and privilege under approved principles of international law, do proclaim and declare the aforesaid International Load Lines Convention suspended and in- operative in the ports and waters of the United States of America, and in so far as the United States of America is concerned, for the duration of the present emergency. 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 9 t h day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-sixth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. AMENDMENTS OF REGULATIONS RELATING TO MIGRATORY BIRDS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Secretary of the Interior, under authority and direction of and in compliance with 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. 1555, the administration of which act was transferred to the said Secretary on July 1, 1939 by Reorganization Plan No. II (53 Stat. 1431), has adopted and submitted to me the following amendments, which he has determined to be suitable amend- ments of certain of the regulations approved by Proclamation No. 2345 of August 11, 1939, as amended by Proclamation No. 2367 of September 28, 1939, and Proclamation No. 2420 of August 9, 1940, permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, pos- session, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, expor- tation, and importation of migratory birds and parts, nests, and eggs thereof, included in the terms of the Convention between the United 47 Stat. 2256. Suspension of Con- vention on part of United States; dura- tion. August 16, 1941 [No. 2501] 16U. .C.§704. 5U.S.C.i133t note. 54 Stat. 2615, 2661, 2729. 16U..C.Ci70 note. 55 STAT.] 1661

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