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PROCLAMATIONS-AUG. 11, 1939 Regulation 7.- TAK ING OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY NONGAME BIRDS BY ESKIMOS AND INDIANS IN ALASKA In Alaska, Eskimos and Indians may take, in any manner and at any time, and may possess and transport, auks, auldets, guillemots, murres, and puffins and their eggs and skins for use of themselves and their immediate families for food and clothing. Post,p. 233. Regulation 8. -P E RMI TS TO PROPAGATE MIGRATORY WATERFOWL Permits toprop- 1. A person in possession of a valid, subsisting permit issued to him gate migratorywater- fowl. by a State, on its part, authorizing him to take therein migratory waterfowl or their eggs for propagating purposes, may take such birds or their eggs in such State for such purposes when authorized by a permit issued to him by the Secretary, which permit may limit the species and numbers of birds or eggs that may be taken and the period during which and the locality in which they may be taken. Both permits shall be carried on the person of the permittee when he is taking migratory waterfowl or their eggs and shall be exhibited to any person requesting to see them. Waterfowl and their eggs so taken may be possessed by the permittee and may be sold and transported by him for propagating purposes to any person holding a permit issued by the Secretary m accordance with the provisions of this regulation. 2. Apersonin possession of a valid, subsisting permit issued to him by a State, on its part, authorizing him to possess, purchase, sell, and transport migratory waterfowl and their increase and eggs for propa- gating purposes, may possess, purchase, sell, and transport such waterfowl and their increase and eggs for such purposes when author- ized by a permit issued to him by the Secretary; but may not purchase from or sell to any person not authorized by these regulations or by a permit issued thereunder to sell or purchase such waterfowl and their eggs; and migratory waterfowl, except the birds, and those hatched from the eggs, taken under paragraph 1 of this regulation, possessed under such permit, or as otherwise authorized by this regulation, may be killed by him at any time and in any manner (except that they may be killed by shooting only during the open season for waterfowl in the State where killed), and the carcasses, with heads and feet attached thereto, may be sold and transported by him to any person for actual consumption, or to the keeper of a hotel, restaurant, or boarding house, a dealer in meat or game, or a club, for sale or service to their patrons, who may possess such carcasses for actual consump- tion without a permit, but no such birds that have been killed shall be bartered, sold, or purchased unless each bird before attaining the age of 4 weeks shall have had removed from the web of one foot a portion thereof in the form of a V large enough to make a permanent, well-defined mark, which shall be sufficient to identify it as a bird raised in domestication under a permit. AtPplications or per- 3. Applications for permits shall be addressed to the Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C ., and must state the name and address of the applicant; the place where the propagating project is to be carried on; the area to be used in the project; the facilities the applicant has for properly caring for the waterfowl; the number of each species of waterfowl in his possession, and how, when, and where they were acquired; and, if the application is for a permit to take migratory waterfowl or their eggs, the species and the number of each species or of the eggs of each species proposed to be taken, and the specific locality where it is proposed to take them. No permit will be issued 2622 [54 STAT.