PROCLAMATIONS-OCT. 16 , 1939 CLOSED AREA UNDER THE MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT VIRGINIA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Secretary of the Interior has submitted to me for approval the following regulation adopted by him on October 4, 1939, under authority of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), and Reorganization Plan No. II, transmitted to the Congress May 9, 1939: REGULATION DESIGNATING AS CLOSED AREA CERTAIN LANDS AND WATERS ADJACENT TO THE BACK BAY MIGRATORY WATERFOWL REFUGE, VIRGINIA By virtue of and pursuant to the authority contained in sec- tion 3 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755, 16 U. S . C. 704), and Reorganization Plan No. II, transmitted by the President to the Congress May 9, 1939, there is hereby designated as closed area in or on which pursuing, hunt- ing, taking, capturing, or killing, or attempting to take, capture, or kill, migratory birds is not permitted, all areas of land and water adjacent to the Back Bay Migratory Waterfowl Refuge, in Prin- cess Anne County, Virginia, not now owned by the United States within the following-described exterior boundary: Beginning at a point S. 34002' E., 35.18 chains, from U. S. C. & G. S . Triangulation Station "Club", and about one- half mile south of the Little Island Coast Guard Station, on the Atlantic Ocean shore, marked with a U. S. Biological Survey standard concrete post; Thence along the Atlantic Ocean shore, with the meanders thereof, S. 23058 ' E., 36.61 chains; S. 18°50' E., 10.24 chains; S. 24052 ' E ., 10.24 chains; S. 24°07' E., 10.57 chains; S. 25015' E., 10.43 chains; S. 24°59' E., 11.61 chains; S. 24°32' E., 24.70 chains; S. 24°01' E., 11.15 chains; S. 22 026' E., 11.64 chains; S. 20°07' E., 14.49 chains; S. 22015' E., 23.54 chains; S. 19°20' E., 12.11 chains; S. 22°37' E., 23.71 chains; S. 22 0 51' E., 22.14 chains; S. 18°44' E., 10.62 chains; S. 24°19' E., 11.05 chains; S. 17052' E., 10.90 chains; S. 19°22' E., 11.05 chains; S. 17056' E., 10.68 chains; S. 14°40' E., 22.66 chains; S. 19°57' E., 12.19 chains; S. 17°02' E., 9.79 chains; S. 20°26' E., 7.51 ehains, to a point; 2665 October 16, 1939 [No. 2370] Preamble. 16U..C.J704; Supp. V, § 704. 53 Stat. 1431 . 5U.S. C., Supp. V. §133t (note). Back Bay Migra- tory Waterfowl Ref- uge, Va. Regulation desig- nating certain lands and waters adjacent to, as closed area. Description. 54 STAT.
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