Proclamation 1657—Amending Regulations for Protection of Migratory Birds

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas, The Secretary of Agriculture, by virtue of the authority vested in him by section three of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (40 Stat., 755), has submitted to me for approval, a regulation further amendatory of the regulations approved and proclaimed July 31, 1918, which the Secretary of Agriculture has determined to be a suitable amendatory regulation permitting and governing the hunt sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, and export of said birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, as follows:

REGULATION 8.-PERMITS TO PROPAGATE AND SELL MIGRATORY WATERFOWL.

Regulation 8, paragraph 8 is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

8. A person may possess and transport for his own use, without a permit, live migratory waterfowl now lawfully possessed or hereafter lawfully acquired by him, but he may not purchase or sell such waterfowl without a permit. A State or municipal game farm or city pork may possess, purchase, sell, and transport live migratory waterfowl without permit, but no such waterfowl shall be purchased from or sold to a person (other than such State or municipal game farm or city park) unless he has permit. The feathers of wild ducks and wild geese lawfully killed and feathers of such birds seized and condemned by Federal or State game authorities may be possessed, bought, sold, and transported, for use in making fishing flies, bed pillows, and mattresses and for similar commercial purposes, but not for millinery or ornamental purposes.

Now, therefore, I, Warren G. Harding, President of the United States of America, Do Hereby Approve and Proclaim the foregoing amendatory regulation.

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 10th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-seventh.

WARREN G HARDING

By the President:
     CHARLES E. HUGHES,
          Secretary of State