hundredths feet; thence south seventy-four degrees thirty minutes west to a point one hundred and fifty feet distant from the shore of Eagle Lake; thence northerly, but everywhere parallel with and one hundred and fifty feet distant from said shore of Eagle Lake to the southeastern line of land of W. M. Roberts; thence north fifty-two degrees thirty minutes east, but everywhere following the southeasterly line of said land of Roberts one thousand two hundred and seventy and five-tenths feet, more or less, to an iron bolt at a corner of land of the Estate of T. L. Roberts; thence south thirty-seven degrees thirty minutes east, but everywhere following the southwest line of said Roberts Estate and land now or formerly of William H. Puffer one thousand one hundred and fifty-five feet, more or less, to a stone post at the southwest corner of said land of Puffer; thence north fifty-two degrees thirty minutes east, but always following the southeasterly line of land now or formerly of Puffer et als, being lot No. 56 on said Peters Plan, to the Thomas Wasgatt Lot, so called; thence south thirty-seven degrees thirty minutes east, following said Wasgatt Lot, to land formerly of the Heirs of Benjamin Ash, now of the Rodick Realty Company; thence south two degrees thirty minutes west, but always following said land of the Rodick Realty Company five thousand seven hundred and thirty-five feet to said BrewerGilmore Division Line, or Deane Line; thence north forty-five degrees east, always following said land of Rodick Realty Company, et als, three thousand eight hundred and fifty-two and seventy-five onehundredths feet, more or less, to the hemlock tree, the place of beginning, and

WHEREAS, the said conveyance has been accepted by the Secretary of the Interior in the manner and for the purposes prescribed in said act of Congress, and

WHEREAS, the said lands embrace about five thousand acres adjacent to and including the summit of Mount Desert Island, which island was discovered by Samuel de Champlain and upon which he first landed when, acting under the authority of Sieur de Monts, he explored and described the present New England coast, an exploration and discovery of great historic interest. The topographic configuration, the geology, the fauna and the flora of the island, largely embraced within the limits of the Monument, also, are of great scientific interest,

Maine.

Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United National Monument, States of America, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested Vol. 34, p. 225. by Section 2 of said Act of Congress, do hereby declare and proclaim that the said lands herein before described and which are located within the irregular tract and fully delineated on the diagram hereto attached and made a part hereof, are hereby reserved and set apart as a National Monument, to be known and recognized as the Sieur de Monts National Monument.

ment, etc.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not Reserved from settleto appropriate, injure, destroy or remove any of the features or objects included within the boundaries of this Monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof.

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 8th day of JULY, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-first.

By the President:

FRANK L. POLK

WOODROW WILSON

Acting Secretary of State.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, Capulin Mountain, located in Townships twentynine and thirty North, Range twenty-eight East of the New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Mexico, is a striking example of recent extinct volcanoes and is of great scientific and especially geologic interest,

Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by Section 2 of the Act of Congress entitled, "An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities", approved June 8, 1906 (34 Stat., 225), do proclaim that, subject to prior, valid, adverse claims, there are hereby reserved from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, and set apart as the Capulin Mountain National Monument, all the tracts of land shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part hereof, and more particularly described as follows, to wit: Lots two, three and four, the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, the south half of the northwest quarter, the north half of the southwest quarter of section four; lots one and two, the south half of the northeast quarter and the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Section five, township twenty-nine north, range twenty-eight; the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirty-two; the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter, and the south half of the southwest quarter of section thirty-three, township thirty north, range twenty-eight, all east of the New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Mexico.

Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, remove or destroy any features of this Monument, or to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation.

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 ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] sixteen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty first.

By the President:

ROBERT LANSING

Secretary of State.

WOODROW WILSON

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, an Act of Congress approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen" (37 Stat., 847), contains provisions as follows:

All wild geese, wild swans, brant, wild ducks, snipe, plover, woodcock, rail, wild pigeons, and all other migratory game and insectivorous birds which in their northern and southern migrations pass through or do not remain permanently the entire year within the borders of any State or Territory, shall hereafter be deemed to be within the custody and protection of the Government of the United States, and shall not be destroyed or taken contrary to regulations hereinafter provided therefor.

CAPULIN MOUNTAIN
NATIONAL MONUMENT

NEW MEXICO

Embracing Lots 2,3 and 4, SW NE, St NW, NSW Sec.4 Lots/ and 2, St NE, NE SE Sec. 5, T. 29 N., R.28; SE SE Sec. 32, SW SE, St SW Sec. 33, T. 30 N., R. 28, all East of the New Mexico Principal Meridian, containing 680.37 Acres.

The Department of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to adopt suitable regulations to give effect to the previous paragraph by prescribing and fixing closed seasons, having due regard to the zones of temperature, breeding habits, and times and line of migratory flight, thereby enabling the department to select and designate suitable districts for different portions of the country, and it shall be unlawful to shoot or by any device kill or seize and capture migratory birds within the protection of this law during said closed seasons, and any person who shall violate any of the provisions or regulations of this law for the protection of migratory birds shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the court.

The Department of Agriculture, after the preparation of said regulations, shall cause the same to be made public, and shall allow a period of three months in which said regulations may be examined and considered before final adoption, permitting, when deemed proper, public hearings thereon, and after final adoption shall cause the same to be engrossed and submitted to the President of the United States for approval: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect or interfere with the local laws of the States and Territories for the protection of nonmigratory game or other birds resident and breeding within their borders, nor to prevent the States and Territories from enacting laws and regulations to promote and render efficient the regulations of the Department of Agriculture provided under this statute.

WHEREAS, the Department of Agriculture has duly prepared suitable regulations to give effect to the foregoing provisions of said Act and after the preparation of said regulations has caused the same to be made public and has allowed a period of three months in which said regulations might be examined and considered before final adoption and has permitted public hearings thereon;

AND, WHEREAS, the Department of Agriculture has adopted the regulations hereinafter set forth and after final adoption thereof has caused the same to be engrossed and submitted to the President of

in effect.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of Regulations declared the United States of America, by authority in me vested do approve and hereby proclaim and make known the following regulations for carrying into effect the foregoing provisions of said Act:

Regulation 1.-Definitions.

For the puposes of these regulations the following shall be consid- Definitions ered migratory game birds:

(a) Anatidae or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese, and

swans.

(b) Gruidae or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes.

(c) Rallidae or rails, including coots, gallinules, and sora and other rails.

(d) Limicolae or shore birds, including avocets, curlew, dowitchers, godwits, knots, oyster catchers, phalaropes, plover, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, turnstones, willet, woodcock, and yellow legs. (e) Columbidae or pigeons, including doves and wild pigeons. For the purposes of these regulations the following shall be considered migratory insectivorous birds:

(f) Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, cuckoos, flickers, flycatchers, grosbeaks, hummingbirds, kinglets, martins, meadowlarks, nighthawks or bull bats, nuthatches, orioles, robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, waxwings, whip

Migratory game birds.

Migratory insective. rous birds.