Proclamation 2206—Closed Area Under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Arkansas

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

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

REGULATION DESIGNATING CERTAIN LAND AND NAVIGABLE WATER WITHIN OR ADJACENT TO WHITE RIVER MIGRATORY WATERFOUL REFUGE, ARKANSAS, AS CLOSED AREA UNDER THE MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT

I, M.L. Wilson, Acting Secretary of Agriculture, by virtue of authority vested in me by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755-757, U.S.C., title 16, secs. 703-711), and in extension of Regulation 4 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Regulations, do hereby designate as a closed area, in or on which hunting, taking, capturing, or killing, or attempting to hunt, take, capture, or kill, migratory birds is not permitted, all that area of land and navigable water in Monroe, Arkansas, Phillips, and Desha Counties, Arkansas, lying within the meander lines of the White River between its point of entry into Sec. 13, T. 3 S., R. 2 W., and the point where it leaves Sec. 36, T. 7 S., R. 2 W., Fifth Principal Meridian, and all lands and waters in Arkansas County, Arkansas, lying within the meander lines of La Grue Bayou between its point of entry into Sec. 19, T. 6 S., R. 1 W., and the point of its confluence with the White River in Sec. 7, T. 7 S., R. 1 W., Fifth Principal Meridian, and being within or adjacent to White River Migratory Waterfowl Refuge as established by Executive Order No. 7173, dated September 4, 1935.

And Whereas upon consideration it appears that approval of the foregoing regulation 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 power vested in me by the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing 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 14th day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-first.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.