PROCLAMATIONS-JULY 20, 31, 1945 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE THIS 20 th day of July in the year of our Lord one thou- sand nine hundred and forty-five, and of the Independence [SEAL] of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: JOSEPH C. GREW Acting Secretary of State REGULATIONS RELATING TO MIGRATORY BIRDS AND CERTAIN GAME MAMMALS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Secretary of the Interior has adopted and sub- mitted to me the following amendments of the regulations approved by Proclamation No. 2616 of July 27, 1944, as last amended by Procla- mation No. 2625 of September 26, 1944, permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, exportation, and importation of migratory birds and parts, nests and eggs thereof, included in the terms of the Convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916, and the Convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals concluded February 7, 1936: AMENDMENTS OFI MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR Under authority and direction of section 3 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), as amended bcy the act of June 20, 1936 (49 Stat. 1555), the administration of which said act as amended was transferred to the Secretary of the Interior on July 1, 1939 by Reorganization Plan II (53 Stat. 1431), I, HAROLD L. ICKES, Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distribution, abundance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of migratory flight of migratory birds included in the terms of the Convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds, concluded August 16, 1916, and the Convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals, concluded February 7, 1936, have deter- mined when, to what extent, and by what means it is compatible with the terms of said conventions and act to allow the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, exportation, and importation of such birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, and in accordance with such determinations, do hereby amend, as specified, the regulations approved by Procla- mation No. 2616 of July 27, 1944, as last amended by Proclamation No. 2625 of September 26, 1944, and as so amended do hereby adopt such regulations as suitable regulations, permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, 873 July 31, 1945 [No. 26581 58 Stat. 1136, 1156. 16 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 704 note. 39 Stat. 1702. 50 Stat. 1311. 16U.S.(.§701. 5U.S.C.§133t note. 39 Stat. 170o. 50 Stat. 1311. 58 Stat. 1136. 16 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §704 note. 58 Stat. 1156. 66347°- 47 PT. 11 ---13 59 STAT.]
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