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 PROCLAMATIONS-OCT. 18, 20, 1948 Because of the opening of the hunting season for migratory water- fowl in Massachusetts on October 29, 1948 and the need for protection of such birds in the area described herein, it is found that it is contrary to the public interest to issue this regulation subject to the effective date limitation of section 4 (c) of the Administrative Procedure Act. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed this 5th day of October 1948. [SEAL] WLIME AN WILLIAM E. WARNE Acting 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, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the said Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing regulation. 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 1 8 t h day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-third. By the President: ROBERT A LOVETT Acting Secretary of State. 62 STAT.] HARRY S TRUMAN MODIFICATION OF CLOSED AREA UNDER THE MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT; OREGON 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 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): AMENDMENT OF REGULATION DESIGNATING AS CLOSED AREA CER- TAIN LANDS AND WATERS WITHIN, ADJACENT TO, OR IN THE VICINITY OF THE MALHEUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, OREGON By virtue of and pursuant to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), and Reorganization Plan II (53 Stat. 1431), and in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act of June 11, 1946 (60 Stat. 238), I, William E. Warne, Acting Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distribution, abundance, economic 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 birds, concluded August 16, 1916, and the Convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mam- mals, concluded February 7, 1936, do hereby designate as a closed October 20, 1948 [No. 2818] 5U..C.§133t note. 16U.S.C.§§703- 711. 5U.S.C.§133t note. 5U.S.C. 1003. 39 Stat 1702 50 Stat 131L 6870'- -5 1- -PT. 11 --18 1565 60 Stat. 238. 5U.S.C. §1003. 40 Stat. 755. 16U.S.C.§§703- 711. [SEAL]

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