Proclamation 2529—Closed Area Under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Maryland

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas the Secretary of the Interior has submitted to me for approval the following amendatory regulation adopted by him on November 17, 1941, under authority of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755, 16 U.S.C. 704), and Reorganization Plan No. II (53 Stat. 1431):

Amendment of Regulation Designating a Certain Part of Chesapeake Bay as the Susquehanna Migratory Water fowl Closed Area, Maryland

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority contained in section 3 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755, 16 U.S.C. 704), and Reorganization Plan No. II (53 Stat. 1431), I. Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distribution, abundance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of flight of the migratory birds included in the terms of the conventions between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds, concluded August 16, 1916, and between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals, concluded February 7, 1936, do hereby designate as closed area in or on which pursuing, hunting, taking, capturing, or killing of migratory birds, or attempting to take, capture, of kill migratory birds is not permitted, in lieu of the area designated in the regulation adopted by me on August 11, 1939 and approved and proclaimed by the President on August 24, 1939, all that area of land and water of Chesapeake Bay, in Harford and Cecil Counties, Maryland, within the following-described boundary:

Beginning at a point at latitude 39°29'46" N., and longitude 76°05'01" W., in Chesapeake Bay, due north 200 yards from Fishing Battery Light;

Thence from said initial point, by metes and bounds,

Due east 4,000 yards (2.27 miles, approximate) to a point at latitude 39'29'46" N., and longitude 76'02'28" W., approximate. In Chesapeake Bay;

Thence due south 4,160 yards (2.36 miles, approximate) to a point at latitude 39°27'43" N., and longitude 76'02'28" W., approximate, in Chesapeake Bay;

Thence N. 62°30' W., 2,680 yards (1.52 miles, approximate) to a point at latitude 39°28'21" N., and longitude 76°03'59" W., approximate. In Chesapeake Bay 440 yards distant from the northeast side of Spesutle Island at Locust Point;

Thence northerly and westerly with a line 440 yards distant from the north shore of Spesutle Island to a point at latitude 39°28'48" N., and longitude 76°05'48" W., approximate, opposite the center of Spesutle Narrows;

Thence due north 1,960 yards (1.11 miles, approximate) to a point at latitude 39°29'46" N., and longitude 76°06'48" W., approximate, in Chesapeake Bay;

Thence due east 1,230 yards (0.76 mile, approximate) to the place of beginning.

The area described contains 2,900.00 acres, more or less.

This order shall not in any way limit or affect the regulation adopted on December 12, 1939, and approved and proclaimed by the President on January 24, 1940, entitled "Regulation Designating Certain Parts of Bush River and of Chesapeake Bay as Additions to the Susquehanna Migratory Waterfowl Closed Area, Maryland".

And Whereas upon consideration it appears that the foregoing amendatory regulation will tend to effectuate the purposes of the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act:

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, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing regulation of the Secretary of the Interior.

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 6th day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-sixth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.