INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES

Vol. VII, Laws     (Compiled from February 10, 1939 to January 13, 1971)

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PART II
PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
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A PROCLAMATION
July 27, 1944 | [No. 2616] 58 Stat. 1136

REGULATIONS RELATING TO MIGRATORY BIRDS AND CERTAIN GAME MAMMALS

Margin Notes
Proclamation 39 Stat. 1702.
Proclamation 50 Stat. 1311.
Proclamation 16 U.S.C. §§ 704, 705.
Proclamation 5 U.S.C. § 133t note.
Proclamation 1137
Proclamation 39 Stat. 1702.
Proclamation 50 Stat. 1311.
Proclamation 1143

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WHEREAS the Secretary of the Interior has adopted and submitted to me for approval regulations permitting and governing (1) 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, and (2) the exportation and importation to and from Mexico of game mammals, parts and products thereof, included in the aforesaid Convention between the United States and the United Mexican States, which said regulations are as follows:

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

Under authority and direction of sections 3 and 4 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, (Reorganization Plan 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 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, and having due regard to the laws of the United Mexican States relating to the exportation and importation of game mammals, and parts and products thereof, included in the terms of the said Convention between the United States and the United Mexican States, and to the laws of the States and Territories and of the District of Columbia from and into which such mammals, parts, and products thereof, may be proposed to be exported or imported, and to the laws of the United States forbidding importation of certain live mammals injurious to the interests of agriculture and horticulture, 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 the exportation and importation of such mammals to and from Mexico, and in accordance with such determination, do hereby adopt the following as suitable regulations permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, exportation, and importation of said migratory birds and parts, nests, and eggs thereof, and the exportation and importation of game mammals and parts and products thereof to and from Mexico:

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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.


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