Proclamation 2284—Closed Area Under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, North 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 16, 1938, under authority of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755):

Regulation Designating as Closed Area Certain Lands and Waters Within, Adjacent to, and in the Vicinity of Pea Island Migratory Waterfowl Refuge, North 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, U.S.C., title 16, sec. 704), and in conformity with Regulation 4 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Regulations, I, H. A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, do hereby designate as closed area in or on which hunting, taking, capturing, or killing, or attempting to hunt, take, capture, or kill, migratory birds is prohibited, all areas of land and water in Dare County, North Carolina, not now owned or controlled by the United States within the following-described exterior boundary:

Beginning at a point on the north end of Pea Island on the south shore of Oregon Inlet, from which point a U.S. Biological Survey standard concrete post set for a witness corner bears south 0.50 chain distant:

Thence from said initial point, along the east side of Pea Island, with the meanders of Oregon Inlet and the Atlantic Coast,

N. 81°29' E., 7.72 chains;

S. 82°11' E., 10.81 chains;

S. 71°52' E., 12.00 chains;

S. 28°29' E., 20.00 chains;

S. 28°53' E., 26.43 chains;

S. 31°14' E., 20.33 chains;

S. 36°56' E., 12.57 chains;

S. 32°43' E., 20.00 chains;

S. 31°34' E., 40.71 chains;

S. 28°12' E., 80.00 chains;

S. 32°07' E., 8.59 chains;

S. 20°59' E., 40.00 chains;

S. 23°06' E., 15.21 chains;

S. 16°20' E., 37.87 chains;

S. 16°21'E., 215.39 chains;

S. 14°24' E., 50.00 chains;

S. 5°58' E., 40.00 chains;

S. 8°29' W., 17.80 chains, to a point on the south end of Pea Island on the north shore of New Inlet;

Thence crossing New Inlet,

S. 31°58' E., 12.30 chains, to a point on the northeast corner of Chicamacomico Island;

Thence along the east side of Chicamacomico Island with the meanders of the Atlantic Coast,

S. 5°31' E., 29.27 chains;

S. 9°63' E., 80.11 chains;

S. 13°30' E., 80.31 chains;

S. 10°35' E., 62.50 chains;

S. 14°17' E., 40.00 chains;

S. 12°58' E., 40.00 chains;

S. 7°58' E., 21.53 chains, to a point from which a U.S. Biological Survey standard concrete post set for a witness corner bears S. 81°40' W., 2.00 chains distant;

Thence inland, crossing Chicamacomico Island,

S. 81°40' W., 41.76 chains, to a point on the west side thereof, on the east shore of Pamlico Sound, from which point a U.S. Biological Survey standard concrete post set for a witness corner bears N. 81°40' E., 0.10 chain distant;

Thence in Pamlico Sound,

N. 89°00' W., 1.8 miles (approximately) to beacon No. 2;

S. 73½ W., 0.9 mile (approximately) to beacon No. 1;

N. 30° W., with a line between beacon No. 1 and the east side of Bunton Island, 11.7 miles (approximately), to a point about 4.7 miles from said island;

N. 67°00' E., 5.5 miles (approximately), to the place of beginning;

And Whereas upon consideration it appears that 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 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 ninth day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.