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3014 Bag limits. PROCLAMATIONS, 1929. direction through the towns of Elgin, Giddings, and Brenham to the point where said railroad crosses the Brazos River; thence with the center of said Brazos River in a general northerly direction to the point on said river where the Beaumont branch of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway crosses the same; thence with the center of the track of the said Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway, in an easterly direction through the towns of Navasota, Montgomery, and Conroe to the point at or near Cleveland where said Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway crosses the Houston East & West Texas Railway; thence with the center of said Houston East & West Texas Railway track to the point in said line where it strikes the Louisiana line the open season shall be from September 1 to November 30; and in that por- tion of Texas lying south and east of the line above described the open season shall be from October 1 to November 30; In South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana the open season shall be from September 1 to September 30 and from November 20 to January 31; and In Georgia and Florida the open season shall be from October 16 t<l January 31. Regulation 5, "Bag Limits on Certain Migratory Game Birds," is hereby amell_ded so as to read as follows: REGULATION 5. -Daily Bag and Possession Limits on Certain Migratory Game Birds Vol. 45, p. 2903, A person muy take in anyone day during the open seasons pre- amended. scribed therefor in regulation 4 not to exceed the following numbers of migratory game birds, which numbers shall includu all birds taken by any other person who for hire accompanies or assists him in taking migratory birds; and in the case of ducks and geese when so taken these may be possessed in the numbers specified as follows: Etfective date. Ducks (except wood ducks and eider ducks).-Fifteen in the aggre- gate of all kinds, and any person at anyone time may possess not more than thirty ducks in the aggregate of all kinds. Geese.- Four in the agbregate of all kinds, and any person at any one time may possess not more than eight geese in the aggregate of all kinds. Brant.- Eight. Raus and Gallinules (except sora and coot).-Twenty-five in the aggregate of all killds, but not more than fifteen of allY one species. Sora. -Twenty-five. Coot.-Twenty-five. Wilson snipe or jacksnipe.-Twenty. Woodcock. - Four. Doves (mourning). - Twenty-five. The foregoin~ amendments of regulations 4 and 5 shall not affect existing regulatIOns prior to February 15, 1930. Approval of regula- NOW, THEREFORE, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United lions. States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendatory regulations. IN TESTIMONY 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 thirty-first day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fourth. By the President: HENRY L. STIMSON Secretary oj State. HERBERT HOOVER