Volume 52
Public Law 75–74
To authorize compacts or agreements between the States bordering on the Great Lakes with respect to fishing in the waters of the Great Lakes, and for other purposes.
Approved April 5, 1938
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To authorize compacts or agreements between the States bordering on the Great Lakes with respect to fishing in the waters of the Great Lakes, and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the consent of Congress is hereby given to any two or more of the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota to enter into compacts or agreements for the uniform regulation of fishing in the waters of the Great Lakes and connecting waters thereof on which such States border and to which their jurisdiction otherwise
Establishment of agencies.
extends, and to establish such agencies, joint or otherwise, as they may deem desirable for making effective such compacts and agreements.
Sec. 2.
Any such compact or agreement shall not be binding or obligatory upon the signatory States unless it has been approved by the legislatures of such States and by the Congress of the United States.
Sec. 3.
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this resolution is hereby expressly reserved.
Approved, April 5, 1938.