PROCLAMATIONS-AUG. 17, 25, 1944 WHEREAS the waste occasioned throughout the Nation by pre- ventable fires reaches a staggering total each year: Dettonoweek NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President abegn revntin of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week begin- Week. ning 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 fire-prevention 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 17 t h day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-four, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth. By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT August 2, 1944 [No. 26191 AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS RELATING TO MIGRATORY BIRDS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Acting Secretary of the Interior has adopted and submitted to me the following amendments of the regulations approved Ante, p. 113. by Proclamation No. 2616 of July 27, 1944, permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, ship- ment, 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 a9 stat. 12 . 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 50 Sta IL concluded February 7, 1936: AMENDMENT OF MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR 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 6U. 8. .17. 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, no.S . c. 133t 1939 by Reorganization Plan II (53 Stat. 1431), I, ABE FORTAS, Acting Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the zones of [58 STAT.
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