2922 PROCLAMATIONS, 1927. f(~1~~':" settlement Subsequent to the date hereof and prior to the date of restoration to general disposition as herein provided, no rights may be acquired to the restored lands by settlement in advance of entry, or otherwise except strictly in accordance herewith. September 6, 1927. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 19th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty- [SEAL1 seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and fifty-second. By the President: FRANK B KELLOGG Secretary oj State. CALVIN COOLIDGE By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Protection of mlgra- WHEREAS, The Secretary of Agn'culture, by virtue of the author- tory birds. Preamble. ity vested in him by section three of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act ~~::~:g:r~. (40 Stat., 755), has adopted and submitted to me for approval, a regulation further amendatory of the regulations approved and pro- claimed July 31, 1918, which the Secretary of Agriculture has deter- mined to be a suitable amendatory regulation permitting and govern- in~ the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, and export of migratory birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, as follows: Open season. REGULATION 4. - OPEN SEASONS ON AND POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS Time prescribed Regulation 4, sub-title "Waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), coot, gallinules, and Wilson snipe or jacksnipe" is hereby amended so as to read as follows: ~aterrowl. Waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), coot, gallinules, p~:" ~~: =-,~~6, and Wilson snipe or jacksnipe.- The open seasons for waterfowl 2964. (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), coot, gallinules, and Wilson snipe or jacksnipe shall be as follows: Ooograpblcal llmlta- In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts (except in tiODS. Nantucket and Dukes Counties), Ohio, West Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, ~ebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, and that portion of Idaho comprising the counties of Boundary, Bonner, Kootenai, Benewah, and Shoshone the open season shall be from September 16 to December 31; In New York (except Long Island) the open season shall be from September 24 to January 7; In that portion of Massachusetts known as Nantucket and Dukes Counties, and in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Indiana, lllinois, Oklahoma, Utah, Idaho (except in the counties of Boundary, Bonner, Kootenai, Benewah, and Shoshone), California, Oregon, and Washington the open season shall be from October 1 to January 15; In that portion of New York known as Long Island, and in New Jer- sey, Delaware, New Mexico, Arizona, that portion of Texas lying west and north of a line beginning on the Rio Grande river directly west
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