Proclamation 2854—Amendments of Regulations Relating to Migratory Birds and Game Mammals
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Whereas the Secretary of the Interior has adopted and submitted to me for approval the following amendments of the regulations relating to migratory birds and game mammals included in the terms of the Convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916, and the Convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and certain game mammals concluded February 7, 1936:
AMENDMENTS OF MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
By virtue of and pursuant to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), and Reorganization Plan II (53 Stat. 1431), and in order to correct certain clerical errors, I, J. A. Krug, Secretary of the Interior, do hereby amend the regulations approved by Proclamation No. 2848 of July 29, 1949, by changing the dates of September 15, 17, and 19 where such dates appear in footnotes 9 and 10 under schedule (c) in section 6.4 thereof (relating to the hunting of white-winged and mourning doves in Texas) to read September 16, 18, and 20.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed, this 19th day of August, 1949.
J. A. KRUG,
Secretary of the Interior.
And Whereas the amendments correct errors in the said Proclamation No. 2848 of July 29, 1949:
Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the said Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendments.
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 26th day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-fourth.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
By the President:
DEAN ACHESON,
Secretary of State.
Harry S Truman, Proclamation 2854—Amendments of Regulations Relating to Migratory Birds and Game Mammals Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/287321