PROCLAMATIONS, 1929. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hsnd and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 12" day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of Ameri~a the one hundred and fifty-third. By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary of State. HERBERT HOOVER By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 2989 April 23, 1929. WHEREAS, The Secretary of Agriculture, by virtue of the author- Pro~tion of migra· ity vested in him by section three of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act toWre~~ie. (40 Stat., 755), has submitted to me for approval, regulations further TarmstroBot (talk):~:~:m2. amendatory of the regulations approved and proclaimed July 31,1918, which the Secretary of Agriculture has determined to be suitable amendatory regulatIOns permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, and export of said birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, as follows: Regulation 3 Means by which M~·ato~ Game Birds may be Vol. 42, p. 2240; Vol. . hb' dd fI 45, pp. 2901, 2942, Taken,IS ereyamene soastorea as 0 OWS: amended. REGULATION 3.- MEANS BY WHICH MIGRATORY .Means fer taking G~\1E BIRDS MAY BE TAKEN birds. The migratory game birds specified in regulation 4 hereof may be taken during the open season with a gun only, not larger than No. 10 gauge, fired from the shoulder, except as specifically permitted by regulations 7,8,9, and 10 hereof; they may be taken during the open season from the land and water, with the aid of a dog, the use of decoys, and from a blind or floating device; but nothing herein shall be deemed to permit the use of an automobile, airplane, powerboat, sailboat, any boat under sail, any floating device towed by power- boat or sailboat, or any sinkbox (battery), except that sinkboxes (batteries) may be used in the taking of migratory waterfowl in coastal sounds and bays (including Back Bay, Princess Anne County, State of Virginia) and other coastal waters; and nothing herein shall be deemed to permit the use of an airplane, or a powerboat, sailboat, or other floatmg device for the purpose of concentrating, driving, rallying, or stirring up migratory waterfowl. Regulation 4, Open Seasons on and Possession of Certain Migratory Game Birds, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: REGl.1LATION 4. - OPEN SEASONS ON AND POSSES- SION OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS. Restrictions modified. Open seasons. For the purpose of this regulation, each period of time herein Time pr!'Scribed. 'bd hIIb d'1dhfi Vol, 45, p. 2956, prescn e as an open season s a e construe to me u e t e rst amended. and last days thereof. Waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), rails, coot, Waterfowl,etc. gallinules, woodcock, Wilson 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 by the means and in the numbers permitted by regulations 3 and 5 hereof, respectively, and when so taken may be possessed any day in any 57894°-31-PT2-86
