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 1088 PROCLAMATIONS-SEPT. 20, 27, 1947 [61 STAT. 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 20 t h day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-seven and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-second. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: ROBERT A LOVETT Acting Secretary of State. AMENDMENTS OF REGULATIONS RELATING TO MIGRATORY BIRDS AND GAME MAMMALS September27,1947 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [No. 27471 A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Secretary of the Interior has adopted and has submitted to me for approval the following amendments of the regu- AnUe pp. 10781085 lations approved by Proclamation No. 2739 of July 31, 1947, relating P to migratory birds and game mammals included m the terms of the Convention between the United States and Great Britain for the pro- 39 Stat.1702 tection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916, and the Con- vention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and certain game mammals 0 Btat. 1311 . concluded February 7, 1936: AMENDMENTS OF MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR By virtue of and pursuant to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 71 U. -. c.C- July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), and Reorganization Plan II (53 Stat. 1431), noe . C. 133 t and having determined, in accordance with the provisions of the Ad- 6o stat. 237. ministrative Procedure Act of June 11, 1946 (Public Law No. 404-79th io5 u5. C .C' 01- Congress), that the amendments adopted herein are corrective and that further notice and public procedure thereon are impracticable and unnecessary, I, J. A. Krug, Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distribution, abundance, eco- nomic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of migratory flight of migratory birds included in the terms of the Convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory 39 sut. 70 birds, concluded August 16, 1916, and the Convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of s0st. 1. migratory birds and game mammals, concluded February 7, 1936, have determined when to what extent, and by what means it is compatible with the terms of the said Act and conventions to allow the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, trans- portation, carriage, exportation, and importation of such birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, and in accordance with such determinations, do hereby amend the regulations approved by Procla- Ap, P. P107I.1085; mation No. 2739 of July 31, 1947, by deleting from Regulation 4 thereof, under the headings specified herein, those portions establishing open seasons on waterfowl, coot, rails, and gallinules in the State of Wisconsin and that portion establishing the open season on waterfowl and coot in the State of Oklahoma, and in lieu of such deleted portions do hereby adopt the following:

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