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2964 August 16, 1928. Protection of migra- tory birds. Preamble. Vol. 40, p. 75 .0. Vol. 39, p . 1702. Open seasons. PROCLAMATIONS, 1928. Avenue, said point being also in the boundary of the United States Military Reservation; thence: (9) South eighty-eight degrees six minutes West (S. 88° 06' W.), along said North line of Ponce de Leon Avenue, a dista.nce of forty- nine and twenty-one hundredths feet (49.21') (15 M), to the point of beginning. . Containing an area of five thousand seven hundred (5700) square feet. 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 ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United Sta.tes of America. the one hundred and fifty-third. By the President: FRANK B KELLOGG Secretary of State. CALVIN COOLIDGE By THE PRESIDENT OF .THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, The Secretary of Agriculture, by virtue of the authority vested in him by section three of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (40 Stat., 755), has 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 determined to be a suitable amendatory regulation permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, pur- chase, shipment, transportation, carriage, and export of said birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, as follows: REGULATION 4. -oPEN SEASONS ON AND POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS. ~~:-~2oo:J, 2923, Regulation 4, sub-title "Woodcock" is hereby amended so as to 2944,2957,2967. read as follows: elnte, p.2957,amend- Woodcock. -The open season for woodcock shall be as follows: uI;:.graphiCal limits- In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and North Dakota the open season shall be from October 1 to October 31; In Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut the open season shall be from October 20 to November 19; In New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa the open season shall be from October 15 to November 14; In Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Missouri the open season shall be from November 10 to December 10; In Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Oklahoma the open season shall be from November 15 to December 15; and In North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Missis- sippi, and Louisiana the open season shall be from December 1 to December 31. Approval of regula- NOW, THEREFORE, I, CALVIN COOLIDGE, PRESIDENT tion. OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DO HEREBY APPROVE AND PROCLAIM the foregoing amendatory regulation. IN WITNESS THEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.