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 PROCLAMATIONS-OCT. 16, 22, 1941 The second paragraph of Regulation 6, "Shipment, Transportation and Possession of Certain Migratory Game Birds", is amended to read as follows: Not more than the number of such birds permitted by regulation 5 of these regulations to be taken by one person in 1 day, or in 2 days in the case of ducks (except wood ducks), geese (1 day in the case of geese taken in Siskiyou County, California, and Alexander County, Illinois), brant, and woodcock, shall be transported by any one person in 1 calendar week out of Alaska, Puerto Rico, or the State where taken or from Canada or Mexico into the United States. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed this second day of October, 1941. HAROLD L. ICKES Secretary of the Interior." AND WHEREAS upon consideration it appears that the foregoing amendments will aid in the effectuation of the purposes of the afore- said Migratory Bird Treaty Act: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendments. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 16 th day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one, and [SEAL] of 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. Shipment, transpor- tation, and possession, Ante, p. 1666 . 40 Stat. 755 . 16U.S.C.I§708- 711. CIVILIAN DEFENSE BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS on May 20, 1941, with a view to ensuring the most effective correlation and use of the instruments of civilian defense, I established by Executive order the Office of Civilian Defense; and WHEREAS by my proclamation of May 27, 1941, I declared that an unlimited national emergency confronts this country, which requires that its military, naval, air, and civilian defenses be put on a basis of readiness to repel any and all acts or threats of aggression directed toward any part of the Western Hemisphere; and WHEREAS it is the manifest duty and desire of every person in the United States to participate in measures essential to civilian de- fense: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, do hereby designate the period commencing on Armistice Day, Tuesday, November 11, 1941, and continuing through Sunday, November 16, as a time for all persons throughout the Nation to give thought to their duties and responsi- bilities in the defense of this country, and to become better informed October 22, 1941 [No. 219] 6 F. R. 2517. Ante, p. 1647. Designation of peri- od, Nov. 11 -16, 1941, as time for considera- tion of civilian de- fense. 55 STAT. ] 1693

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