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2476 PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. ini:!s~ntorhunt. This d.evastation has constituted so great a menace to our wild-life . resources and to their future enjoyment by our people as to impel the Yo1. 40, p. 755 . t'. s.c..p.436. Secretary of Agriculture to adopt a regulation compatible WIth the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (40 Stat. 755), whereby during the coming fall there will be an open hunting season on these birds of only one month. Emergency coopera. Now, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United tion ror protecting v. -s · States of America, do hereby urge that all persons take cognizance of terro,,"l urged. this emergency, and I call upon all game and conservation officials, State and local, all members of ~ame-protective organizations, land- owners, sportsmen, and public-spIrited citizens generally to lend their cooperation to effect full observance of this regulation, to the end that adequate numbers of waterfowl may return to their breeding grounds next spring and that there may be no repetition of the calamity of extermination that has already overtaken some species of our Amencan birds. August 25,1931. 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-one, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-sixth. HERBERT HOOVER By the President: W. R . CASTLE, Jr. Acting Secretary oj State. [No. 1965] AMENDING REGULATIONS ON MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Protection of migra· WHEREAS the Secretary of Agriculture, by virtue of the authority tO~~ie. vested in him by section 3 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (40 ~Ols~Pp~55~_ Stat. 755; U. S. Code, title 16, sees. 703-711), has submitted to me Vol. 3~:P. 1702. I. for approval a regulation further amendatory of the regulations ap- elestricttons amend. proved and proclaimed July 31, 1918, which the Secretary of Agri- culture has determined to be a suitable amendatory regulation per- mitting and governing 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: Yol. 4&, pp . 3013, 3019. Regulation 4, "Open Seasons on and Possession of Certain Migra- tory Game Birds," IS amended so as to read as follows: Periods defined. AnU, p. ~1. Pon. pp. ~1, 2521. \\" aterrowI. etc. REGULATION 4. -- oPEN SEASONS ON AND POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS For the purpose of this regulation, each period of time herein prescribed as an open season shall be construed to include the first and last days thereof. Waterfowl (except snow geese in Florida and all States north thereof bordering on the Atlantic Ocean, Ross's goose, cackling goose, wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), rails, coot, gallinules, woodcock, Wilson's snipe or jacksnipe, and mourning doves may be taken each day from half an hour before sunrise to sunset during the open seasons prescribed therefor in this regulation, except that the hour for the