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PROCLAMATIONS, 1930. 3035 In'South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama (except in Mobile and Bald- win Counties), Mississippi, and Louisiana the open season shall be from September 1 to September 30 and from November 20 to January 31; In that portion of Alabama comprising Mobile and Baldwin Coun- ties the open season shall be from November 1 to January 31; In North Carolina the open season shall be from November 20 to January 31; In Florida (except in Dade, Monroe, and Broward Counties) the open season shall be from October 16 to January 31; and In that portion of Florida comprising Dade, Monroe, and Broward Counties the open season shall be from September 16 to November 15. N ow, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United Approval. States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendatory regulation. 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 25" day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fiity-fifth. By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary oj State HERBERT HOOVER By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION September 17, 1930. WHEREAS the North American Continent leads the world in the N~tion'\l Fire Pre- f. Ifi fd . 1 f 11 ventlOn Week, 1930. amount 0 Its annua re waste, one year 0 evastatrng osses 0 OW- Preamble. ing another, each, with but few exceptions, establishing a new high mark in the amount of valuable property burned and in the magnitude of economic losses-property losses alone in 1929 exceeding $470,000,000; WHEREAS thousands of persons annually die as a result of burns and many additional thousands are injured, 66 per cent of all fatalities from fire taking place in the home; WHEREAS the present condition can be corrected only through the earnest effort of each one of us; and WHEREAS it has been customary to observe National Fire Preven- tion Week in the effort to instill into every citizen a full understanding of his individual responsibility in the curtailment of the mounting losses of property and life through preventable fires; N ow, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United 19:ee~COo~ oct~~r ~ States of America, do proclaim the week of October 5 z 1930, to be 'r men observed as National FIre Prevention Week, and do inVIte the active cooperation of all in the prevention of fire waste, and the consequent procuring of individual benefits and increased national prosperity. 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 17 day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fifth. By the President: II L STIMSON Secretary oj State HERBEHT HOOVER