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 PROCLAMATIONS-NOV. 5,12,1948 shall find that emergency State action to prevent forest fires has resulted in the shortening of the season during which the hunting of any migratory game bird is permitted in any extensive area and that a compensatory extension or reopening of the hunting season for such birds will not result in a diminution of the abundance of birds to any greater extent than that contemplated for the original hunting season, the hunting season for the birds so affected may, subject to all other provisions of this subchapter, be extended or reopened by the Director upon request of the chief officer of the agency of the State exercising administration over wildlife resources. The Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service shall fix the length of the extended or reopened season, which in no event shall exceed the number of days during which hunting has been so prohibited, and he shall publicly announce the extended or reopened season." This amendment shall become effective upon its publication in the Federal Register as a part of the proclamation of the President by which the amendment is approved and proclaimed. Compliance with the provisions of section 4 of the Administrative Procedure Act (60 Stat. 238; 5 U. S . C. 1003) with respect to notice and effective date is found to be contrary to the public interest because of the emergency conditions which the proposed amendment is designed to correct. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed, this 4t h day of November, 1948. [SEAL] OSCAR L CHAPMAN Acting Secretary of the Interior. AND WHEREAS upon consideration it appears that approval of the foregoing amendment will effectuate the purposes of the aforesaid Migratory 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 amendment. 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 5 th day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight, [SEAL] and of 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. THANKSGIVING DAY, 1948 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION As the traditional day of thanksgiving approaches, our thoughts incline, as in previous years, to the richness of our blessings. The spiritual endowments of our country are undiminished; we may, as always, walk as free men unafraid. Our harvests have been bountiful, 40 Stat. 755. 16 U. . C. §.703- 711. 40 Stat. 765. 16 U.S. C. §704. November 12, 1948 [No. 283] 62 STAT.] 1573

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