Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 50 Part 2.djvu/870

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PROCLAMATIONS, 1936 Amendatory regu- lations approved and proclaimed. another State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or to or from a foreign country shall be plainly and clearly marked or labeled on the outside thereof to show the name and address of consignor and con- signee, the contents of the package by number and kind, the number of the permit under authority of which it is transported, and that the specimens contained therein are for scientific purposes. Every package in which migratory birds or their nests or eggs are shipped wholly within a State or Territory, for scientific purposes, shall be plainly and clearly marked or labeled on the outside thereof in the manner above prescribed. AND WHEREAS upon consideration it appears that approval of the foregoing amendatory regulations will tend to effectuate the pur- poses of the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act and result in reduc- ing the annual kill of migratory game birds: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, do hereby approve and pro- claim the foregoing amendatory regulations. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 12 day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-first. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President WILLIAM PHILLIPS Acting Secretary of State FIRE PREVENTION WEEK-1936 September 2, 1936 [No. 2195] Fire Prevention Week, 1936. Preamble. Week beginning Oc- tober 4, 1936, desig- nated as. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the annual fire loss in the United States includes thousands of human lives taken and hundreds of millions of dollars of property values destroyed; and WHEREAS this loss has been materially reduced by the preventive measures adopted during recent years; and WHEREAS further improvement can be brought about by our common effort to eliminate fire hazards and to prevent destructive fires in the home, school, factory, and forest, and on the farm: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and designate the week beginning October 4, 1936, as Fire Prevention Week, and I invite the cooperation of all of our people in the further elimination of existing fire hazards to the end that the loss of life, the destruction of property, and the suffering caused thereby may be still further reduced. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 2 day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-first. By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT 1770