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PROCLAMATIONS-JULY 14, 17, 1942 Ante, p. 1966. Ante, p. 1968. Ante, p. 1966 [SEAL] HAROLD L. ICKES Secretary of the Interior. 40 Stat. 755. 16U.S.C. §703- 711; Supp. I, § 704 note. July 17, 1942 [No. 263] Ante, p. 307. AND WHEREAS upon consideration it appears that the foregoing amendments will effectuate the purposes of the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendments. 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 14th day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-two, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-seventh. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDE:LL IULL Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Congress of the United States in the exercise of its constitutional authority has declared, by joint resolutions approved by the President of the United States on June 5, 1942, that a state of war exists between the United States of America and Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria; and WHEREAS by sections 21, 22, 23, and 24 of title 50 of the United States Code, provision is made for the regulation of the conduct and apprehension of natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of a hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized: Migratory game birds importedfrom countries other than Canada and Mexico.-M igratory game birds of a species on which open seasons are prescribed by regulation 4 of these regulations, legally taken in and exported from a foreign country (other than Canada and Mexico, for which provision is hereinbefore made) may be transported by any one person in 1 calendar week in numbers not exceeding those permitted by regulation 5 of these regulations to be taken by one person in 1 day, or in 2 days in the case of woodcocks, ducks (except wood ducks), but not more than 6 geese, including brant, in the aggregate of all kinds of which not more than 4 in any combination may be species other than blue geese, to any State, Alaska, or Puerto Rico during the open season prescribed by said regulation 4 for such State, Alaska, or Puerto Rico on that species, and to the District of Columbia during the open season so prescribed for Maryland, and may be possessed in such State, Alaska, or Puerto Rico for an additional period of 30 days immediately succeeding such open season, if transportation and pos- session of such birds are not prohibited by such State, Alaska, Puerto Rico, or District and if transported in packages marked as hereinbefore provided in this regulation. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed, this 7t h day of July, 1942. 1970 [56 STAT.