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 Oct. 30, 1948 PROCLAMATIONS Nov. 5, -1948 Nov. 5, 1948 November 5, 1948 [No. 2822] 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 30 t h day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-third. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: ROBERT A LOVETT Acting Secretary of State. AMENDMENT OF REGULATIONS RELATING TO MIGRATORY BIRDS AND GAME MAMMALS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 39 Stat. 1702. 50 Stat. 1311. 16 U. .a. if 703- 711. 5U.S.C.§133t note. 39 Stat. 1702. 50 Stat. 131L Ante, pp. 136, 1570. WHEREAS the Acting Secretary of the Interior has adopted and has submitted to me for approval the following amendment of the regulations relating to migratory birds and game mammals 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 certain game mammals concluded February 7, 1936: AMENDMENT OF MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE ACTING SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR 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), I, OSCAR L. CHAPMAN, Acting Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distribution, abun- dance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of migra- tory flight of migratory birds designated in 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 mammals concluded February 7, 1936, have determined when, to what extent, and by what means it is com- patible with the terms of the said Act and conventions to allow the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, exportation, and importation of such birds and parts thereof, and in accordance with such determination, do hereby amend the regulations approved by Proclamation 2801 of July 29, 1948 (13 F. R. 4414), as amended by Proclamation 2821 of October 30, 1948 (13 F. R. 6465), by adding at the end of § 1.4 thereof the following: "Provided, however, (1) that in the area of Minnesota in which hunting has been prohibited by State action by reason of emergency fire-hazard conditions, subject to all other provisions of this sub- chapter, the open season specified in this section for migratory water- fowl in that State is hereby extended for such area and for a period not to exceed the number of days during which hunting has been pro- hibited by State action but in no case beyond November 14, 1948; and (2) that whenever the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service 1572 [62 STAT

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