PROCLAMATIONS-JULY 31, 1947 AMENDMENTS OF REGULATIONS RELATING TO MIGRATORY BIRDS AND GAME MAMMALS Jnly 31, 1947 [No. 2739] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Acting Secretary of the Interior has adopted, after notice and public procedure pursuant to section 4 of the Administra- 60 Stt.8M. tive Procedure Act of June 11, 1946 (Pub. Law No. 404-79th Cong.), . CI and has submitted to me for approval the following amendments of 58 Stat 3 . 117. the regulations approved by Proclamation No. 2616 of July 27, 1944, 16U.S.C. th4 note. as amended, relating to migratory birds and game mammals included Ante, pp. 103, 1067. in the terms of the Convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 39 stat.170 1916, and the Convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and certain 0stat. 1311. game mammals concluded February 7, 1936: AMENDMENTS OF MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR By virtue of and pursuant to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 16 u. s. c . ii17- July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), and Reorganization Plan II (53 Stat. su.s.c.. 133t 1431), and in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Sote.37 Procedure Act of June 11, 1946 (Pub. Law No. 404-79th Cong.), I 65. R .Cli 0l - Oscar L. Chapman Acting Secretary of the Interior, having due re- gard to the zones of temperature and to the distribution, abundance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of migratory flight of migratory birds included in the terms of the Convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of 39 tat. 1702 migratory birds, concluded August 16, 1916, and the Convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals, concluded Feb- 5o stat. 13a. ruary 7, 1936, have determined when, to what extent, and by what means it is compatible with the terms of the said Act and conventions to allow the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, pur- chase, shipment, transportation, carriage, exportation, and importa- tion of such birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, and in accordance with such determinations, do hereby amend as follows the s8Stat. 1136. regulations approved by Proclamation No. 2616 of July 27, 1944, as note. last amended by Proclamation No. 2699 of August 8, 1946, and as Ate, pp . 0aa, s067. so amended do hereby adopt such regulations as suitable regulations, permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, pos- session, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, exporta- tion, and importation of such migratory birds and parts, nests, and eggs thereof: 8 stat. nas. Regulation 3, "Means by Which Migratory Game Birds May be note. Taken" is amended to read as follows: 58 Stat. 1139. 16U..C. 704 note. Ante. p. 1033; pos, pp. 10771077 188, 1094. 58 Stat. 1144. 16U.S.C.1704 note. Migratory game birds on which open seasons are specified in regulation 4 may be taken during such seasons only with bow and arrow or with a shotgun not larger than No. 10 gage, fired from the shoulder, except as permitted by regulations 7, 8, and 9, but they shall not be taken with or by means of any automatic-loading or hand-operated repeating shotgun capable of holding more than three shells, the magazine of which has not been cut off or plugged with a one-piece metal or wooden filler incapable of removal through the loading end thereof so as to reduce the capacity of said gun to not 1076 [61 STAT.
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