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PROCLAMATIONS-AUG. 11, 21, 1939 (Public No. 19-76th Congress), to be imported, and the dead bodies of game mammals, or parts or products thereof, proceeding from Mexico, if accompanied by a Mexican export permit, may be trans- ported into the United States, but their possession in any State or Territory or the District of Columbia will be subject to the laws of such State, Territory, or District. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act regulations approved July 30, 1937 (50 Stat. 1844), and all amendments thereof are hereby revoked, but all regulations heretofore adopted and approved pursuant to said act closing areas of land and water or of land or water adjacent to migra- tory-bird sanctuaries, refuges, reservations, and breeding and feeding grounds to the taking of migratory birds, and all orders and permits heretofore made or issued pursuant to said act, and now in force, authorizing the killing or other disposition of certain species of migra- tory birds when injurious to crops and other property and interests, and the taking, possession, sale, purchase, exchange, or transportation of migratory birds and their nests and eggs for scientific purposes, and migratory waterfowl and their eggs for propagating purposes, are hereby continued and extended in full force and effect as regulations, orders, or permits adopted and approved or made or issued hereunder. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed, this 3 r day of August, 1939. OSCAR L. CHAPMAN Acting Secretary of the Interior AND WHEREAS upon consideration it appears that approval of the foregoing regulations will effectuate the purposes of the afore- said Migratory Bird Treaty Act: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing 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 11" day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President SUMNER WELLES Acting Secretary of State EXTENDING THE PERIOD FOR TEE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ADEQUATE SHIPPING SERVICE FOR, AND DEFERRING EXTENSION OF THE COASTWISE LAWS TO, CANTON ISLAND BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 21 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (ch. 250, 41 Stat. 997), provides: "That from and after February 1, 1922, the coastwise laws of the United States shall extend to the island Territories and possessions of the United States not now covered thereby, and the board is directed prior to the expiration of such year to have established adequate 53 Stat. 561 , 1434 . 5U.S.C., 8upp. V, §§133-133t.J Designated regula- tions revoked; excep- tions. Regulations ap- proved and pro- claimed. August 21, 1939 [No. 234 Pramw . 46U.S.o. IaS7 Bapp. V, 1|87. Ak P.W277, 2s7. 2627 54 STAT.]