PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. 2481 AMENDING REGULATIONS ON MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA September 12, 1931. A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Secretary of Agriculture, by virtue of the authority ~=~n of mlgra· vested in him by section 3 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (U. S. ~b~l. Code, title 16, secs. 703-711; 40 Stat. 755), has submitted to me for Vol. ~ p: 766. approval a regulation further amendatory of the regulations approved u. 8 . lJ ., pp. 43&-437. . hi . Vol. 39, p. 1702 . and proclalDled July 31, 1918, w ch the Secretary of Agriculture ~Jl.~.1812. odi has determined to be a suitable amendatory regulation permitting 1Ied. ctODS m • and governing the hunting, taking, capture, kjJ]jng, possession, sale, purchase1 shipment, transportation, carriage, and export of migratory birds ana. parts thereof and their nests and ~gs, as follows: Regulation 4, "Open Seasons on and Possession of Certain Migra- Ante, pp. 2441. 2476. tory Game Birds," subtitle "Waterfowl (except snow geese in Florida and all States north thereof bordering on the Atlantic Ocean, Ross's ~oose, cackling goose, wood dueL, eider ducks, and swans) and coot," 18 amended so as to read as follows: Wateifowl (except snow geese in Florida and aU StlUes north thereof Waterfowl and coot. bordering on the Atlantic Ocean, Ross's goose, ccu;kling goose, wood duck, eider ducks, and swans) and coot.-The open seasons for 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) and coot shall be as follows: . In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York (except Long t1o~~Phical limit&- Island), Pennsylvania, West Virginia,Michigan, Wisconsin, Mmnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Utah the open season shall be from October 1 to October 31; In Ohio and Indiana the open season shall be from October 16 to November 15; In Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and illinois the open season shall be from November 1 to November 30; In Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma the open season shall be from October 20 to November 19; In that portion of New York known as Long Island, and in New Jersey, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Oregon and Washington the open season shall be from November 16 to December 15; In Florida the open season shall be from November 20 to December 19; and In Alaska the open season shall be from September 1 to September 30. . N ow, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United Regulat1t'upproved. States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendatory regulation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and causad the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 12" day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred a.nd thirty-one, and {SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-sixth. By the President: HENRY L STIMSOX Secretary oj State. HERBERT HOOVER [!\" o. 1969]
