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2440 PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. WHEREAS in the judgment of the President such rates of duty are shown by such invest~atioll of the Tariff Commission to be necessary to equalize wch difference in costs of production; N OW, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United Decreasing dut~ to St te f Am' dhb d I. d . 8<lliallzC ditTerence In a s 0 erica, 0 ere y approve an proc aim 8. ecrease In costs of production. the rates of duty expressly fLlCed In paragraph 41 of Title I of said ~g:.e4a, P. 597. act on edible gelatin, valued at less than 40 cents per pound, from 20 per centum ad valorem and 5 cents per pound to I? per centum ad valorem and 5 cents per pound, the rates found to be shown by said investigation to be necessary to equalize such difference in costs of production. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DrNE at the City of Washington this 16" day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fifth. By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary oj State. [No. 1942] HERBERT HOOVER AMENDING REGULATIONS ON MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS March 17,1931. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION ~~OD of migra. WHEREAS the Secretary of Agriculture, by virtue of the authority Preambie. vested in hiJ'!l by section 3 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (40 Stat. ~~\i~~P~~43&-4a7. 755; U. S. Codel title 16, secs. 703-711), has submit~d to me for TarmstroBot (talk),P.1702. approval regulations further amendatory of the regulations approved ,p .1812 . and proclaimed July 31,1918, which the Secretary of Agriculture has detennined to be suitable amendatory refP1lations permitting and governing the hunting, takin~, capture, killing, possession, sale, pur- chase, shipment, transportatIOn, carriage, and export of migratory birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, as follows: Means for birds. Regulation 3, "Means by Which Migratory Game Birds May Be Taken," is amended so as to read as follows: taking REGULATION 3. -M EANS BY WHICH MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS MAY BE TAKEN Regulations modi· The ~atory game birds specified in regulation 4 hereof may be lI~i. 45, pp. 2901, taken dunng the open season with a gun only, ~ot larger tha~ No.10 2942; ~l. 46, p. 2989, gauge, fired from the shoulder, except as specifically permitted by am;~t.p:25ro. regulations 7, 8 1 9, and 10 hereof; they may be taken during the open , season from the land and water, with the aid of 8. dog, the use of decoy'sJ and from 8. blind or floating device, except that in the hunting WUdgeeea. of wila. geese not more than ten (10) live goose decoys may be used or shot over at any one ~g stand, blind, or floating device; but nothing herein shall be deemed to permit the use of 8.Il automobile, airpl8.lle, power boat, sailboat, any boat under sail, any floating device towed by power boat or sailboat, or any sinkbox (battery), except thai; sinkboxes (batteries) may be used in the taking of migratory waterfowUnccastal sounds and bays (including Back Bay, Princess