regulation 4, legally taken in and exported from a foreign country (other than Canada and Mexico, for which provision is hereinbefore made) may be transported by any one person in 1 calendar week in numbers not exceeding those permitted by regulation 5 to be taken by one person in 1 day, except American and redbreasted mergansers, or in 2 days in the case of woodcocks, ducks (except wood ducks), but not more than 4 geese, including brant, but not including blue, snow, or whitefronted geese, and in addition not more than eight singly or in the aggregate of blue, snow, or whitefronted geese, to any State, Alaska, or Puerto Rico during the open season prescribed by said regulation 4 for such State, Alaska, or Puerto Rico on that species, and to the District of Columbia during the open season so prescribed for Maryland, and may be possessed in such State, Alaska, or Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia for an additional 45 days immediately succeeding such open season, if transportation and possession of such birds are not prohibited by such State, Alaska, or Puerto Rico and if transported in packages marked as hereinbefore provided.

Regulation 7-Taking of Certain Migratory Nongame Birds by Eskimos and Indians in Alaska

In Alaska, Eskimos and Indians may take, in any manner and at any time, and may possess and transport, auks, auklets, guillemots, murres, and puffins and their eggs and skins for use of themselves and their immediate families for food and clothing.

Regulation 8-Propagating, Scientific, and Other Permits

1. Any person without a permit may possess and transport for his own use, legally acquired live migratory waterfowl and the plumage and skins of legally taken migratory game birds, and such person may possess, dispose of, and transport for the making of fishing flies, bed pillows, and mattresses, and for similar commercial uses, but not for millinery nor ornamental use, feathers of wild ducks and wild geese legally killed or seized and condemned by Federal or State game authorities.

2. Permits for the taking, acquisition, and possession of live migratory birds and their eggs for propagating purposes, for the taking, acquisition and possession of

migratory birds and their eggs, nests, or parts for scientific and other limited purposes, for the disposition and transportation of such birds, eggs, nests, parts, and their increase, and for the mounting or other preparation by a taxidermist of such birds, eggs or nests, may be issued under the direction of the Secretary, upon such terms and conditions, including the keeping of records and the making of reports, as he may deem are necessary for the protection of the species and consistent with the general purposes of these regulations.

3. Without obtaining a permit as otherwise required in Section 2 of this regulation, public museums, zoological parks and societies, and public scientific and educational institutions may acquire, possess, purchase, dispose of and transport migratory birds and their eggs, nests or parts. State or municipal game farms or city parks also may acquire, possess, dispose of, and transport live migratory waterfowl without a permit.

4. Applications for permits shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary, and shall be addressed to the Director of Fish and Wildlife Service, Chicago 54, Illinois.

5. Every package in which migratory birds or parts, nests or eggs thereof, are shipped wholly within a State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or in which such birds or parts or eggs thereof are transported by any means whatever from one State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, to, into, or through another State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or to a foreign country, shall be plainly and clearly marked, labeled, or tagged on the outside thereof to show the name and address of the consignor and consignee, the contents of the package, the number of the permit under authority of which it is shipped or transported, and the purpose for which the birds or parts, nests or eggs are being shipped or transported.

Regulation 9-Permits to Kill Migratory Birds Injurious to Agriculture or Other Interests

Agriculture or other injury. When information is furnished the Secretary that any species of migratory bird has become, under extraordinary conditions, seriously injurious to agriculture or other interests in any extensive area, an investigation will be made to determine the nature and extent of the injury,

whether the birds alleged to be doing the damage should be killed, and, if so, during what times, hours, and by what methods and means. Upon such determination an appropriate order will be made by the Secretary.

Whenever, by reason of a rapid decrease in the distribution and abundance of any species of migratory game birds during any open season specified in these regulations, the shortening of such season or the reduction of the daily bag and possession limits will operate to insure a continuing and normal supply of such species, then, in that event the applicable season or the daily bag and possession limits of such species shall be shortened or reduced to the extent determined necessary to insure such continuing and normal supply. Whenever, by reason of the destruction of valuable agricultural crops through the overabundance of any species of migratory game birds during either an open or closed season specified in these regulations, the lengthening of an open season or the increase of the daily bag and possession limits or a change in the manner, method or hours of such taking will operate to reduce the destruction of valuable agricultural crops, then, in such event the applicable season or daily bag and possession limits may be increased or the manner, method or hours of taking changed for such fixed period or time to the extent necessary to conserve such valuable agricultural crops. In no event shall any season be lengthened to provide an open season of more than 32 months.

The facts as to the decrease in distribution and abundance of any species of migratory game birds requiring a shortening of seasons or reductions of daily bag and possession limits, or as to the destruction of valuable agricultural crops requiring the lengthening of seasons or other remedial action, shall be determined by the Secretary and in accordance therewith he shall issue applicable orders which shall become effective when published in the FEDERAL REGISTER.

Specific injury. Upon receipt by the Director, or the Regional Director in the region where the injury occurs, of information from the owner, tenant, or sharecropper that migratory birds are injuring his crops or other interests on the land on which he resides, together with a statement of the location of the land, the nature of the crops or other

interests being injured, the extent of such injury, and the particular species of birds committing the injury, an investigation will be made, and if it is determined from such investigation that the injury complained of is substantial and can be abated only by killing the birds, or some of them, permits to kill the birds may be issued by the Director or by the Regional Director, if authorized by the Director, in which permits will be specified the time during which, the means and methods by which, and the person or persons by whom the birds may be killed, and the disposition to be made of the birds so killed, and such other restrictions as may be deemed necessary and appropriate in the circumstances of the particular case.

Every person exercising any privilege granted in a permit issued by the Director or Regional Director shall keep an accurate record of all migratory birds killed by him and whenever requested by the Director or by the Regional Director shall submit promptly, on a form provided by the Fish and Wildlife Service for the purpose, a report correctly stating the species and the number of each species of migratory birds killed by him, and in any event shall submit such report to the Regional Director on or before January 10 of each year. Failure to submit a report as required by this regulation will be sufficient cause for revocation of the permit or withdrawal of any privilege accorded any person failing to make the report.

Regulation 10-State Laws for the Protection of Migratory Birds

Nothing in these regulations or in any permit issued thereunder shall be construed to permit the taking, possession, sale, purchase, or transportation of migratory birds, or parts, nests, or eggs thereof contrary to the laws and regulations of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, made for the purpose of giving further protection to migratory birds, their nests, and eggs, when such laws and regulations are not inconsistent with the conventions between the United States and any other country for the protection of migratory birds or with the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and do not extend the open seasons for such birds beyond the dates prescribed by these regulations.

Regulation 11-Transportation of Game Mammals to and From Mexico

Game mammals or parts or products thereof, taken in and transported from a State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, may be transported to Mexico, if the importation thereof is not prohibited by law or regulation of that country, upon presentation to the collector of customs at the port of exit of the certificate of an official, warden, or other officer of the game department of such State, Territory, or District, that such game mammals, or parts or products thereof, which must be listed in the certificate, were taken or acquired, and are being transported in compliance with the laws and regulations of such State, Territory, or District.

Live game mammals authorized by a special permit issued by the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to section 241 of the Penal Code, the administration of which section was in part transferred to said Secretary on July 1, 1939, pursuant to the Reorganization Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 561), to be imported, and the dead bodies of game mammals, or parts, or products thereof, proceeding from Mexico, if accompanied by a Mexican export permit, may be transported into the United States, but their possession in any State or Territory or the District of Columbia will be subject to the laws of such State, Territory, or District.

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act regulations approved August 11, 1939 (54 Stat. 2615), and all amendments thereof are hereby revoked, but all permits heretofore made or issued pursuant to said act and now in force authorizing the killing or other disposition of certain species of migratory birds when injurious to crops and other property and interests and the taking, possession, sale, purchase, exchange, or transportation of migratory birds and their nests and eggs for scientific purposes, and migratory waterfowl and their eggs for propagating purposes, are hereby continued and extended in full force and effect as permits adopted and approved or made or issued hereunder.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed, this 25th day of July, 1944. [SEAL]

HAROLD L. ICKES, Secretary of the Interior.

AND WHEREAS upon consideration it appears that approval of the foregoing regulations will effectuate the purposes of the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing regulations.

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 27th day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty[SEAL] four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL,

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2617

CAPTURE OF PRIZES

WHEREAS the act of August 18, 1942, 56 Stat. 746, as amended by Public Law 407, approved July 1, 1944, contains in part the following provisions:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the district courts shall have original Jurisdiction of all prizes captured during war if said capture was made by authority of the United States or was adopted and ratified by the President of the United States and the prize was brought into the territorial waters of a cobelligerent or was taken or appropriated for the use of the United States, including jurisdiction of all proceedings for the condemnation of such property taken as prize.

waters for the use of the United States shall be accorded, upon proclamation by the President of the United States, like privileges with respect to prizes captured under authority of such cobelligerent and brought into the territorial waters of the United States or taken or appropriated in the territorial waters of the United States for the use of such cobelligerent. Reciprocal recognition and full faith and credit shall be given to the jurisdiction acquired by courts of a cobelligerent hereunder and to all proceedings had or judgments rendered in exercise of such jurisdiction.

WHEREAS the Government of Australia, a cobelligerent, has consented to the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred by the said act with respect to prizes of the United States brought into the territorial waters of Australia and to the taking or appropriation of such prizes within the territorial waters of Australia for the use of the United States:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the said act of August 18, 1942, do proclaim that the Government of Australia shall be accorded like privileges with respect to prizes captured under authority of the said Government and brought into the territorial waters of the United States or taken or appropriated in the territorial waters of the United States for the use of the said Government.

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 12th day of August in the year of our

Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtyninth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

E. R. STETTINIUS, JR.,
Acting Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2618
FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, 1944

WHEREAS the widening operations of our valiant armies and navies make it imperative that we exert our utmost effort to provide an increasingly abundant flow of goods and materials to every battle front; and

WHEREAS the prevention of waste is as essential to this end as is the production of goods; and

WHEREAS the waste occasioned throughout the Nation by preventable fires reaches a staggering total each year:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 8, 1944, as Fire Prevention Week.

I earnestly request every citizen to devote special thought and effort during Fire Prevention Week to detecting and eliminating fire hazards within his own control and to providing adequate protection against the waste of our fighting power through destruction by fire. I also request State and local governments, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the National Fire Waste Council, business and labor organizations, educational and civic groups, and the various agencies of the press, the radio, and the motion-picture industry throughout the country to lend themselves to the stimulation of the public purpose to reduce and eliminate losses by preventable fire. I also direct the Department of Agriculture, the War Production Board, the protective services of the War and Navy Departments, and other appropriate agencies of the Federal Government to give the widest possible support and assistance to every effort to inform and instruct the public with respect to the possibilities and importance of the fireprevention program.

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 17th day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-four, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtyninth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL,

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2619

AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS RELATING TO MIGRATORY BIRDS

WHEREAS the Acting Secretary of the Interior has adopted and submitted

to me the following amendments of the regulations approved by Proclamation No. 2616 of July 27, 1944, permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, exportation, and importation of migratory birds and parts, nests and eggs thereof, 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 game mammals concluded February 7, 1936:

AMENDMENT OF MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR 1

Under authority and direction of section 3 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), as amended by the act of June 20, 1936 (49 Stat. 1555), the administration of which said act as amended was transferred to the Secretary of the Interior on July 1, 1939 by Reorganization Plan II (53 Stat. 1431), I, ABE FORTAS, Acting 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 migratory flight of migratory birds 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 game mammals, concluded February 7, 1936, have determined when, to what extent, and by what means it is compatible with the terms of said conventions and act to allow the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, exportation, and importation of such birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, and in accordance with such determination, do hereby amend, as specified, the regulations approved by Proclamation. No. 2616 of July 27, 1944, and as so amended do hereby adopt such regulations as suitable regulations, permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, exportation, and importation of 1 Affects Title 50, Part 1, infra.

such migratory birds and parts, nests, and eggs thereof:

The second and third sentences of the subdivision entitled "Woodcock" of Regulation 4 are amended to read as follows:

New York, north and east of the tracks of the branch lines of the New York Central Railroad from Oswego to Syracuse, the main line of the New York Central Railroad from Syracuse to Albany, and the main line of the Boston and Albany Railroad from Albany to the Massachusetts State line and in Wisconsin, October 1 to October 15.

New York, west and south of the line above described, and in Indiana, and West Virginia, October 16 to October 30.

The subdivisions entitled "American and redbreasted mergansers" and "Geese and brant (except snow geese in Beaverhead, Gallatin, and Madison Counties in Montana, in Idaho, and in States bordering on the Atlantic Ocean; and Ross' goose)" of Regulation 5 are amended to read as follows:

American and redbreasted mergansers. Twenty-five singly or in the aggregate. No possession limit.

Geese and brant (except snow geese in Beaverhead, Gallatin, and Madison Counties in Montana, in Idaho, and in States bordering on the Atlantic Ocean; and Ross' goose anywhere) as follows:

In the Pacific Coast States.-Four snow and whitefronted geese (singly or in the aggregate) plus two of some other kind or kinds, including brant, may be taken. Eight snow and whitefronted geese (singly or in the aggregate) plus four of some other kind or kinds, including brant, may be possessed.

Elsewhere than in the Pacific Coast States.-Four blue and snow geese (singly or in the aggregate) plus two of some other kind or kinds, including brant, may be taken. Eight blue and snow geese (singly or in the aggregate) plus four of some other kind or kinds, including brant, may be possessed.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed, this 22d day of August 1944. ABE FORTAS,

Acting Secretary of the Interior.

AND WHEREAS upon consideration it appears that approval of the foregoing amendments will effectuate the purposes