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PROCLAMATIONS-JULY 27, 29, 1949 Findings with re- spect to copra and coconut oil. Termination date. 53 Stat. 264 . 26 U.S.C.§ 2470(a) (2). July 29, 1949 [No. 2848] 5U.S.0. 1003. 39 Stat. 1702 50 Stat. 131L 18 U. S. C.O 703- 711; Supp. II, § 704 notes. 5U..C.. 133t note. 60 Stat. 237. 5U.S.C.§1001 note; Supp. II, 1001. 39 Stat. 1702. 50 Stat. 1311. NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim that, after consultation with the President of the Philippines, I have found that adequate supplies of copra and coconut oil, the product of the Philippines, are readily available for processing in the United States. Upon the expi- ration of 30 days after the date of this proclamation the suspension of the provisions of section 2470 (a) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code effected by said proclamation of June 27, 1946, will be terminated so that on and after August 27, 1949, the processing tax provided for in that section will be applicable. 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 27th day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-fourth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: DEAN ACHESON Secretary of State. AMENDMENTS OF REGULATIONS RELATING TO MIGRATORY BIRDS AND GAME MAMMALS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Secretary of the Interior has adopted, after notice and public procedure pursuant to section 4 of the Administrative Pro- cedure Act of June 11, 1946 (60 Stat. 238), and has submitted to me for approval the following amendments of the regulations relating to migratory birds and game mammals 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 certain game mammals concluded February 7, 1936: AMENDMENTS OF MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR By virtue of and pursuant to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), and Reorganization Plan II (53 Stat. 1431), and in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act of June 11, 1946 (60 Stat. 238), I, J. A. Krug Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the zones of tempera- ture and to the distribution, abundance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of migratory fight 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 determined when, to what extent, and by what means it is compatible with the terms of the said Act and conventions to allow the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, exportation, and importation of such birds and parts thereof and 1280 [63 STAT.