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PROCLAMATIONS-APR. 15, 24, 1941 Prior regulation superseded. 53 Stat. 2507 . 3F.R.10. 54 Stat. 2724. Regulations ap proved and pro- claimed. N. 10° E., 205.00 chains (approximately), to a point opposite Egg Point; N. 30° E., 180.00 chains (approximately), to a point opposite Big Sharp Point; N. 25° W., 130.00 chains (approximately), to a point opposite Meile Dietrich Point; N. 30° E., 330.00 chains (approximately), to the place of beginning. The bearings in the above description are referred to the true meridian as determined by solar observations made in surveys by the Bureau of Biological Survey in 1937. This order supersedes the regulation adopted by the Secretary of Agriculture on October 26, 1938, and approved and proclaimed by the President on November 26, 1938, entitled "Regulation Designating as Closed Area Certain Lands and Waters Within, Adjacent To, or in the Vicinity of the Aransas Migratory Water- fowl Refuge, Texas". The Aransas Migratory Waterfowl Refuge was established by Executive Order No. 7784, of December 31, 1937, and its designation was changed to Aransas National Wild- life Refuge by Proclamation No. 2416, of July 25, 1940. AND WHEREAS upon consideration it appears that the foregoing amendatory regulation will tend to effectuate the purposes of the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing regulations of the Acting Secre- tary of the Interior. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this fifteenth day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. By the President, CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT PROCLAMATION OF A STATE OF WAR BETWEEN BULGARIA, ON THE ONE HAND, AND YUGOSLAVIA AND GREECE, ON THE OTHER HAND April 24, 1941 [No. 2479] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 1 of the joint resolution of Congress approved .Stat. 4C. November 4, 1939, provides in part as follows: "That whenever the President, or the Congress by concurrent resolution, shall find that there exists a state of war between foreign states, and that it is necessary to promote the security or preserve the peace of the United States or to protect the lives of citizens of the United States, the President shall issue a proclamation naming the states involved; and he shall from time to time, by proclamation, name other states as and when they may become involved in the war." 1636 [55 STAT.