Volume 52
Public Law 75–110
To amend Public Law Numbered 282, Seventy-fifth Congress, relative to the fisheries of Alaska.
Approved April 7, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend Public Law Numbered 282, Seventy-fifth Congress, relative to the fisheries of Alaska.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That Public Law Numbered 282, Seventy-fifth Congress, entitled “An Act making further provision for the fisheries of Alaska,” approved August 14,
48 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 222a.
1937 (50 Stat. 639), is amended to read as follows: “That section 1 of the Act approved June 6, 1924, entitled ‘An Act for the protection
of the fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes’ (43 Stat. 464), as amended, is further amended by inserting in said section at the end of the first proviso thereof another proviso to read as follows:
Bristol Bay.
Residence and citizenship requirements, persons taking salmon with stake net, etc., for commercial purposes.
‘Provided further, That in the area embracing Bristol Bay and the arms and tributaries thereof, no person shall at any time fish for or take salmon with a stake net or set net, for commercial purposes, unless such person shall be a citizen of the United States and shall have theretofore continuously resided for the period of at least two years within said area; but for the salmon fishing season of 1938, residence within said area continuously after June 1, 1937, shall be deemed sufficient compliance with the residence requirements of this proviso:’ ”.
Approved, April 7, 1938.