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 PROCLAMATIONS-SEPT. 21, 27, 1943 said Station 84; thence N. 1° W., 10,200 feet to Hawkins Point; thence N. 6° W., 4,900 feet to the point of beginning. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed, this 17th day of September, 1943. [SEAL] HAROLD L. ICKES Secretary of the Interior. AND WHEREAS upon consideration it appears that the foregoing regulation will tend to effectuate the purposes of the aforesaid Migra- tory Bird Treaty Act: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing regulation of the Secre- tary of the Interior: 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 21"t day of September, in the vear of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. 40 Stat. 755 . 16U.S.C.§§703- 711; Supp. II, § 704 note. CAPTURE OF PRIZES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the act of August 18, 1942, 56 Stat. 746, contains in part the following provisions: "Be it enacted by the Senate and IHouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all prizes captured dur- ing the present war on the high seas if said capture was made by authority of the United States or was adopted and ratified by the President of the United States and the prize was brought into the territorial waters of a cobelligerent or was taken or appro- priated for the use of the United States on the high seas or in such territorial waters, including jurisdiction of all proceedings for the condemnation of such property taken as prize. "Sec. 3. The jurisdiction of prizes brought into the territorial waters of a cobelligerent shall not be exercised under authority of this Act, nor shall prizes be taken or appropriated within such territorial waters for the use of the United States, unless the government having jurisdiction over such territorial waters con- sents to the exercise of such jurisdiction or to such taking or appropriation. "Sec. 7. A cobelligerent of the United States which consents to the exercise of the jurisdiction herein conferred with respect September 27, 1943 [No. 2594] 50U.S. C., Supp.II , app. I§ 821-828. 751 57 STAT.]

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