Proclamation 2329—Closed Area Under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Georgia and South Carolina

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas the Secretary of Agriculture has submitted to me for approval the following regulation adopted by him on March 1,1939, under authority of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755):

Regulation Designating as Closed Area Certain Waters Adjacent to the Savannah River Wildlife Refuge, Georgia and South Carolina

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 3 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755, 16 U.S.C. 704), I H.A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, do hereby designate as closed area in or on which pursuing, hunting, taking, capturing, or killing, or attempting to take, capture, or kill migratory birds is not permitted, the channels of the Savannah River known as Steamboat River and Houstown Cut, between Front and Middle Rivers; Middle River from the head of Argyle Island to its confluence with Front River; and Back River from the mouth of Union Creek to the foot of Argyle Island, adjacent to the areas in Chatham County, Georgia, and Jasper County, South Carolina, established as the Savannah River Wildlife Refuge by Executive Order No. 5748, of November 12, 1931, and enlarged by Executive Order No. 7391,1 of Jun6 17, 1936.

Whereas upon consideration it appears that the foregoing regulation is in the public interest and will tend to effectuate the purposes of the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918:

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3,1918, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing regulation of the Secretary of Agriculture.

In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this tenth day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-third.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.