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nell, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, a Commission to hear and decide the questions in dispute between the anthracite coal operators and miners. Its report will be made within sixty days if possible, will be retroactive to April 1, 1929, and will be made the basis of a new wage agreement between the anthracite operators and miners in such manner as the Commission may determine.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

DONE in the District of Columbia this 3d day of June, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the One Hundred and Forty-fourth.

By the President:

BAINBRIDGE COLBY

Secretary of State.

WOODROW WILSON

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION.

June 12, 1920.

Alaska coal areas.
Preamble.

Vol. 38, p. 741.

WHEREAS, section 2 of the act of Congress approved October 20, 1914 (38 Stat., 741), authorizes the mining of coal from reserved areas in Alaska, under the direction of the President, when necessary for the Navy or for other purposes specified in the act, and WHEREAS, the act of June 4, 1920, entitled "An Act making Ante, p. 826. appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes" contained a provision for securing

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of said statutes, do hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of the Interior, when and if an appropriation for such work becomes available, to mine and prospect for coal, to transport the same, to construct coal bunkers and the necessary docks for use in supplying ships therewith, to erect the necessary structures, to purchase the necessary equipment for mining, prospecting, washing, loading, and/or transporting coal from "Leasing Unit No. 12" or any other reserved areas in the Matanuska field, Alaska, for the purpose of supplying coal for the Navy, and to enter into such cooperative arrangement as may be deemed advisable to carry out the provisions of this Proclamation.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set may hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

DONE in the District of Columbia this 12th day of June, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and [SEAL.] Twenty, and of the Independence of the United States the One Hundred and Fortyfourth.

By the President:

BAINBRIDGE COLBY

Secretary of State.

WOODROW WILSON

Directing mining for

naval uses in Mata

nuska field.

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, certain lands within the States of Georgia and Tennessee have been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States under authority of the Act of Congress approved March first, nineteen hundred and eleven (36 Stat., 961), entitled "An Act To enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers"; and WHEREAS, it appears that the public good will be promoted by reserving and setting apart said lands as a public forest reservation, and the same have been designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as the Cherokee National Forest;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America, by virture of the power in me vested by section eleven of said Act and by section twenty-four of the Act of March three, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An Act To repeal timber-culture laws and for other purposes", do proclaim that there are hereby reserved and set apart as a public forest reservation all of said lands within the area shown as the Cherokee National Forest on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof, and that all lands therein which have been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States under authority of said Act of March first, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall be permanently reserved and administered as part of the Cherokee National Forest. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

DONE in the District of Columbia this 14th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-fourth.

By the President:

BAINBRIDGE COLBY

Secretary of State.

WOODROW WILSON

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, The Secretary of Agriculture, pursuant to the authority contained in Section three of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (40 Stat., 755), has submitted to me for approval Regulations, further amendatory of the Regulations approved and proclaimed July 31, 1918, which the Secretary of Agriculture has determined to be suitable amendatory Regulations permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, and export of said birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, which said amendments are as follows:

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REGULATION 1.-DEFINITIONS OF MIGRATORY BIRDS.

Definitions of migratory birds.

Migratory insectivor-
Vol.40, p.1813,amend-

ous birds.

Regulation 1, paragraph 2, is amended so as to read as follows:
2. Migratory insectivorous birds: Cuckoos; flickers and other
woodpeckers; nighthawks or bull-bats and whip-poor-wills; swifts;
hummingbirds; flycatchers; bobolinks, meadowlarks, and orioles; ed.
grosbeaks; tanagers; martins and other swallows; waxwings; shrikes;
vireos; warblers; pipits; catbirds and brown thrashers; wrens;
brown creepers; nuthatches; chickadees and titmice; kinglets and
gnatcatchers; robins and other thrushes; and all other perching birds
which feed entirely or chiefly on insects.

REGULATION 4.-OPEN SEASONS ON AND POSSESSION
OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS.

Open seasons.
Daylight

require

Vol.40,p.1813,amend

Regulation 4, paragraph 2, is amended so as to read as follows: Waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), rails, coot, ments. gallinules, black-bellied and golden plovers, greater and lesser yellow- ed. legs, woodcock, Wilson snipe or jacksnipe, and mourning doves may be taken each day from half an hour before sunrise to sunset during the open seasons prescribed therefor in this regulation, by the means and in the numbers permitted by Regulations 3 and 5 hereof, respectively, and when so taken, may be possessed any day in any State, Territory, or District during the period constituting the open season where killed and for an additional period of 10 days next succeeding said open season, but no such birds shall be possessed in a State, Territory, or District at a time when such State, Territory, or District prohibits the possession thereof.

Regulation 4, subtitle "Doves," is amended so as to read as follows: Doves.-The open seasons for mourning doves shall be as follows: In Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, California, Nevada, Idaho, and Oregon the open season shall be from September 1 to December 15; and

In North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi the open season shall be from October 16 to January 31.

AND

REGULATION 6.-SHIPMENT, TRANSPORTATION,
POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS.

Regulation 6, title is amended as above, and regulation is amended so as to read as follows:

Restrictions.

Doves.
Open seasons

for

mourning doves modi

fied.

ed.

vol. 40, p. 1815.
Ante, p. 1764, amend-

tation, and possession

Vol. 40, pp. 1815, 1864,

amended.

Waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), rails, coot, Shipment, transporgallinules, black-bellied and golden plovers, greater and lesser yellow-restrictions. legs, woodcock, Wilson snipe or jacksnipe, and mourning doves and parts thereof legally taken may be transported in or out of the State where taken during the respective open seasons in that State, and may be imported from Canada during the open season in the Province where taken, in any manner, but not more than the number thereof that may be taken in two days by one person under these regulations shall be transported by one person in one calendar week out of the State where taken; any such migratory game birds or parts thereof in transit during the open season may continue in transit such additional time immediately succeeding such open season, not to exceed five days, necessary to deliver the same to their destination, and may be possessed in any State, Territory, or District during the period Possession added. constituting the open season where killed, and for an additional period of ten days next succeeding said open season; and any package in which migratory game birds or parts thereof are transported shall

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