Thence S. 87°14′ W., in part with a ditch and in part with a stone wall 4.75 chs., in the corner of stone walls; Thence with three courses along a stone wall with the meanders thereof, N. 0°04' E., 3.98 chs., N. 15°45′ E., 4.03 chs., N. 20°49′ W., 0.205 ch., in the stone wall in the range of the center of a ditch bearing Easterly; Thence N. 86°52′ E., 2.383 chs., at the edge of marsh and upland in the range of the center of a ditch bearing Easterly; Thence with 25 courses along the edge of marsh and upland with the meanders thereof, N. 49°10' E., 0.768 ch., S. 83°37′ W., 3.84 chs., N. 45°39' E., 5.900 chs., N. 21°05′ E., 2.630 chs., N. 38°42′ W., 1.083 chs., at the edge of the marsh and upland in the range of center of a ditch extended Southwesterly from the marsh; Thence N. 48°17′ E., in part with the center of a ditch 6.59 chs., in the center of a ditch; Thence with two courses along the center of a ditch with the meanders thereof, N. 51°41' E., 3.05 chs., N. 58°16′ E., 3.05 chs., at the Junction of ditches; Thence S. 72°43′ E., approximately 16.00 chs., to mean high water on the left or north bank of Causeway Creek; Thence Easterly with mean high water down the left or north bank of Causeway Creek, with the meanders thereof, approximately 18.00 chs., to mean high water on the left or west bank of Pine Island Creek (also known as Great Pine Island Creek); Thence Northwesterly and Northeasterly with mean high water down the left or west bank of Pine Island Creek with the meanders thereof, approximately 18.00 chs., to the intersection of mean high water on the left or north bank of Pine Island Creek with the center of a ditch bearing Northerly; Thence with seven courses along the center of the ditch with the meanders thereof, N. 8°38′ E., approximately 1.80 chs., N. 1°38′ E., 0.980 ch., N. 51°54' E., 0.507 ch., N. 78°12′ E., 0.274 ch., in the center of an east-west ditch; Thence N. 9°48′ W., in part along the center of a ditch 9.16 chs., to the center of a filled-in ditch; Thence N. 81°40′ E., 8.30 chs., to the junction of ditches; Thence S. 85°11′ E., in part with the center of a ditch 9.92 chs., the intersection of the center of a filled-in ditch with center of a creek; Thence N. 55°34′ E., approximately 29.50 chs., to mean high water on the right bank and near the mouth of Little Pine Island Creek; Thence Northeasterly crossing Little Pine Island Creek, approximately 3.70 chs., to mean high water at the mouth and on the left bank of Little Pine Island Creek; Thence Northerly with mean high water upstream along the right or west bank of the most westerly channel of Plum Island River, with the meanders thereof approximately 30.00 chs., a point, from which a 4" x 4'' cedar post set for a witness corner on the left or east bank of Plum Island River bears N. 61°25′ E., approximately 3.80 chs., distant; Thence N. 61°25′ E., in part crossing Plum Island River and in part on Plum Island approximately 10.41 chs., a standard concrete post No. 57; Thence S. 59°44′ E., 21.51 chs., to mean low water line of the Atlantic Ocean and on the east side of Plum Island, a point from which a 1'' iron pipe set for a witness corner bears N. 59°44′ W., 5.40 chs., distant; Thence Southeasterly along the mean low water line of the Atlantic Ocean on the east side of Plum Island with the meanders thereof 508.00 chs., to a point in the mean low water line of the Atlantic Ocean on the east side of Plum Island approximately 6.00 chs., Northwesterly of the southeast point of the island, from which a standard concrete post No. 58, set for a witness corner bears S. 85°02′ W., 5.57 chs., distant; Thence S. 85°02′ W., on Plum Island 13.80 chs., to the edge of marsh and upland; Thence with five courses along the edge of marsh and upland with the meanders thereof, S. 47°53' W., 8.780 chs., N. 70°33' E., 0.940 ch., in the center of ditch in the line between the marsh and upland; Thence N. 38°44′ W., with the center of a ditch, 12.95 chs., to the north end of the ditch in the edge of marsh and upland; Thence with two courses along the edge of marsh and upland with the meanders thereof, N. 14°56' W., 5.95 chs., N. 15°54' E., 1.056 chs., at the intersection of marsh and upland with the southerly edge of Stage Island; Thence Northwesterly in part with the southerly edge of Stage Island and in part with mean high water on the left or east bank of Plum Island Sound, approximately 27.00 chs., to the westerly edge of a pier; Thence approximately N. 52°00′ W., 50.00 chs., within Plum Island Sound to mean high water at the most southerly point on Middle Ground Island; Thence Northwesterly with mean high water of Plum Island Sound along the southerly and westerly shores of Middle Ground Island, approximately 54.00 chs., to mean high water of Plum Island Sound at the most westerly point near the north end, on Middle Ground Island; Thence N. 57° W., continuing in Plum Island Sound, approximately 36.00 chs., to mean high water at the southern end of Hog Island Point at the mouth and on the left bank of Rowley River; Thence Northerly and Westerly in part with mean high water of Plum Island Sound and in part with mean high water on tue right or south bank of Nelson Island Creek, with the meanders thereo approximately 96.00 chs., to a point at mean nigh water on the south or right bank of Nelson Island Creek, near the lower end of a small island; Thence N. 86°43′ W., approximately 35.50 chs., N. 36°28′ W., 29.00 chs., S. 78°39′ W., 6.70 chs., to the Place of Beginning. Because of the opening of the hunting season for migratory waterfowl in Massachusetts on October 29, 1948 and the need for protection of such birds in the area described herein, it is found that it is contrary to the public interest to issue this regulation subject to the effective date limitation of section 4 (c) of the Administrative Procedure Act. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed this 5th day of October 1948. [SEAL] WILLIAM E. WARNE, Acting Secretary of the Interior. AND WHEREAS upon consideration it appears that the foregoing regulation will tend to effectuate the purposes of the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the said Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing regulation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal 819355-49 PROCLAMATION 2818 MODIFICATION OF CLOSED AREA UNDER THE MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT; OREGON WHEREAS the Acting Secretary of the Interior has submitted to me for approval the following regulation adopted by him under authority of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755, 16 U. S. C. 704), and Reorganization Plan No. II (53 Stat. 1431): AMENDMENT OF REGULATION DESIGNATING AS CLOSED AREA CERTAIN LANDS AND WATERS WITHIN, ADJACENT TO, OR IN THE VICINITY OF THE MALHEUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, OREGON By virtue of and pursuant to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), and Reorganization Plan II (53 Stat. 1431), and in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act of June 11, 1946 (60 Stat. 238), I, William E. Warne, 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, do hereby designate as a closed area, effective October 29, 1948, in or on which pursuing, hunting, taking, capture, or killing of migratory birds, or attempting to take, capture, or kill migratory birds is not permitted, all areas of land and water in Harney County, Oregon, within the record meander lines of Mal Page 83 But excepting therefrom that area of land and water within the record meander line of Malheur Lake, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at corner No. 1, in the record meander line (known as the Neal survey line) of T. 26 S., R. 32 E. (north of Malheur Lake), in the south boundary of fractional sec. 3, at the corner common to lots ten (10) and eleven (11) of said fractional section; Thence within Malheur Lake, south approximately 107.60 chs., to a fence; Thence with six courses along a fence, S. 47°25' W., 65.50 chs., S. 28°20′ E., 34.00 chs., S. 56°25′ W., 35.00 chs., S. 64°40′ W., approximately 5.00 chs.; Thence: S. 79°05′ W., leaving fence, approximately 102.00 chs., to a fence; Thence with three courses along a fence, S. 0°50' E., 49.00 chs., to the record meander line (known as the Neal survey line) of T. 26 S., R. 31 E. (south of Malheur Lake), in the north boundary of fractional sec. 30, at the corner common to lots fourteen (14) and fifteen (15) of said fractional section 30; Thence: Westerly and southwesterly with the aforesaid record meander line (known as the Neal survey line), in part the north boundary of T. 26 S., R. 31 E. (south of Malheur Lake), fractional sec. 30, and in part the north boundary of T. 26 S., R. 30 E. (south of Malheur Lake), fractional secs. 25 and 26, in part along the south side of Malheur Lake and in part along the southeast side of the Narrows connecting Malheur and Mud Lakes, approximately 164.00 chs., to the corner in said record meander line of T. 26 S., R. 30 E. (south of Malheur Lake), in the northwest boundary of fractional sec. 26, common to lots five (5) and seven (7); Thence: Approximately S. 78°15′ W. crossing said Narrows 8.50 chs., to the record meander line (known as the Neal survey line) of T. 26 S., R. 31 E. (north of Malheur Lake), the meander corner common to fractional secs. 26 and 35, on the northwest side of the said Narrows; Thence: Northerly and northeasterly with said record meander line, in part along the northwest side of the said Narrows and in part along the west and north sides of Malheur Lake, in part along south and east boundaries of T. 26 S., R. 31 E. (north of Malheur Lake), fractional secs. 26, 23, 24, 14 and 13, and in part along the south and east boundaries of T. 26 S., R. 32 E. (north of Malheur Lake), fractional secs. 18, 17, 8, 9, 4, 3 and 10, approximately 1,080.00 chs., to the place of BEGINNING. Upon the effective date hereof, this regulation shall supersede the regulation dated September 17, 1941, designating as a closed area certain lands and waters in Harney County, Oregon, approved by the President of the United States of America by Proclamation No. 2516 of October 1, 1941. Because this amendment partially removes the restrictions set forth in said regulation proclaimed October 1, 1941 and imposes no new obligation upon the general public with respect to the area described herein, it is found that it is unnecessary to issue said amended regulation subject to the general notice provision and the effective date limitation of sections 4 (a) and 4 (c), respectively, of the Administrative Procedure Act. In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed this 5th day of October 1948. [SEAL] WILLIAM E. WARNE, Acting Secretary of the Interior. AND WHEREAS upon consideration it appears that the foregoing regulation will tend to effectuate the purposes of the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1913: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendment of regulation. This proclamation supersedes Proclamation No. 2516 of October 1, 1941, ap proving and proclaiming the regulation adopted by the Secretary of the Interior on September 17, 1941, designating as closed area certain lands and waters in Harney County, Oregon. 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 20th day of October in the year [SEAL] of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventythird. HARRY S. TRUMAN By the President: PROCLAMATION 2819 WHEREAS Title 17 of the United States Code, entitled "Copyrights", has been codified and enacted into positive law by the act of Congress approved July 30, 1947, 61 Stat. 652; WHEREAS section 9 of the said Title 17 provides in part that the copyright secured by such title shall extend to the work of an author or proprietor who is a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation only: (a) When an alien author or proprietor shall be domiciled within the United States at the time of the first publication of his work; or (b) When the foreign state or nation of which such author or proprietor is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens, or copyright protection, substantially equal to the protection secured to such foreign author under this title or by treaty; or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States may, at its pleasure, become a party thereto.; WHEREAS section 1 of the said Title 17 provides in part as follows: Any person entitled thereto, upon complying with the provisions of this title, shall have the exclusive right: (e) To perform the copyrighted work publicly for profit if it be a musical composition; Provided, That the provisions of this title, so far as they secure copyright controlling the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work, shall include only compositions published and copyrighted after July 1, 1909, and shall not include the works of a foreign author or composer unless the foreign state or nation of which such author or composer is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States similar rights.; WHEREAS section 9 of the said title further provides that "the existence of the reciprocal conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States, by proclamation made from time to time, as the purposes of this title may require."; WHEREAS the Philippine Copyright Law, No. 3134, approved March 6, 1924, provides by section 10 (b) that the provisions of the said law shall extend to the work of a proprietor who is not a citizen of the Republic of the Philippines only: When the foreign state or nation of which such proprietor is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States or of the Philippine Islands the benefit of copyright protection substantially equal to the protection secured to such foreign proprietor under this act; WHEREAS in Republic Act No. 76, approved October 21, 1946, it is provided by section 1 that: Existing laws or the provisions of existing laws granting privileges, rights or exemptions to citizens of the United States of America or to corporations or associations organized under the laws of any of the states of the United States of America, which are not enjoyed by citizens or nationals of any other foreign state or by corporations or associations organized under the laws of such state, are hereby repealed unless they affect rights already vested under the provisions of the Constitution or unless extended by any treaty, agreement or convention between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of America. AND WHEREAS satisfactory official assurances have been received that on and after October 21, 1948, pursuant to the aforementioned Law No. 3134, as amended by the aforesaid Republic Act No. 76, citizens of the United States will be entitled to obtain copyright protection for their works in the Republic of the Philippines which is substantially equal to the protection afforded by the copyright laws of the United States and which is afforded on substantially the same basis as to the citizens of the Republic of the Philippines, including rights similar to those provided by section 1 (e) of the said Title 17 of the United States Code: NOW, THEREFORE, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim: That on and after October 21, 1948, the conditions specified in sections 9 (b) and 1 (e) of the aforementioned Title 17 of the United States Code will exist and will be fulfilled in respect of the citizens of the Republic of the Philippines, and that on and after October 21, 1948, citizens of the Republic of the Philippines shall be entitled to all the benefits of the said Title 17 except those conferred by the provisions embodied in the second paragraph of section 9 (b) thereof regarding the extension of time for fulfilling copyright conditions and formalities. Provided, that the enjoyment by any work of the rights and benefits conferred by the said Title 17 shall be conditioned upon compliance with the requirements and formalities prescribed with respect to such works by the copyright laws of the United States: And provided further, that the provisions of section 1 (e) of the said Title 17, so far as they secure copyright controlling parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work, shall apply only to compositions published and copyrighted after July 1, 1909, and reproduced for use on any contrivance by means of which the work may be mechanically performed. 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 21st day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States America the one hundred and seventy-third. of By the President: HARRY S. TRUMAN ROBERT A. LOVETT, Acting Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2820 ARMISTICE DAY, 1948 WHEREAS November 11, 1948, marks the thirtieth anniversary of the signing of the Armistice which terminated hostilities between lawless aggressors on one side and defenders of freedom and peace on the other; and WHEREAS less than a generation after the first World War the peace of the earth was shattered by the same aggressive forces, so that peace-loving men were once again compelled to defend themselves and their ideals by force of arms; and WHEREAS it is fitting that on this anniversary we rededicate ourselves as unflagging and perpetual advocates of those principles for which we fought; and WHEREAS the Congress passed a concurrent resolution on June 4, 1926 (44 Stat. 1982), calling for the observance of November 11 with appropriate ceremonies, in schools or churches, or other suitable places, and later provided in an act approved May 13, 1938 (52 Stat. 351), that this date should be celebrated and known as Armistice Day: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe November 11, 1948, as Armistice Day by renewing their devotion to the cause of enduring peace; and I direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all Government buildings on that day. 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 28th day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventythird. By the President: HARRY S. TRUMAN ROBERT A. LOVETT, Acting Secretary of State. |