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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CHS. 295, 301-JUNE 8, 11, 1940 [CHAPTER 295] JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize compacts or agreements between or among the States bordering on the Atlantic Ocean with respect to fishing in the territorial waters and bays and inlets of the Atlantic Ocean on which such States border, 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 Con- gress is hereby given to any two or more of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, to enter into compacts or agreements, not in conflict with any law of the United States, for cooperative effort and mutual assistance for the uniform, common, or mutual regulation of fishing or of any species of fish, mollusks, or crustacea in the territorial waters and bays and inlets of the Atlantic Ocean on which such States border or to which their jurisdiction otherwise extends and of anadromous fish spawning in the inland waters of those States. SEC. 2. The consent of Congress is hereby granted to States other than those specified but which have jurisdiction over inland waters frequented by anadromous fish of the sea to enter into compacts or agreements authorized by this Act. SEC. 3. The consent of Congress is hereby given to any of the aforementioned States to establish such agencies or authorities joint or otherwise, as they may deem desirable for making effective compacts or agreements herein authorized. SEC. 4. 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. 5. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this resolution is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 8, 1940. 261 June 8, 1940 [H. J. Res. 302] [Pub. Res., No. 79] Atlantic Ocean. Compacts between States bordering on, with respect to regu- lation of fishing. Inland waters. Compacts between other States. Establishment of State agencies, etc. Approval by State legislatures and Con- gress. Amendment, etc. [CHAPTER 301] AN ACT June 11, 1940 To amend section 5136 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to authorize charitable [I. 194] contributions by national banking associations. [Public, No. 583] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 5136 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "Eighth. To contribute to community funds, or to charitable, philanthropic, or benevolent instrumentalities conducive to public welfare, such sums as its board of directors may deem expedient and in the interests of the association, if it is located in a State the laws of which do not expressly prohibit State banking institutions from contributing to such funds or instrumentalities." Approved, June 11, 1940. R.. S. 6136, amend- ment. 12U.S.C.§24; Supp. V, §24. National banking associations. Contributions by, to community funds, etc.

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