ARTICLE V

This compact shall become effective immediately after it shall have been ratified by the majority of the legislatures of the States of Maryland and West Virginia, the Commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Virginia, and by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and approved by the Congress of the United States; provided, however, that this compact shall not be effective as to any signatory body until ratified thereby.

ARTICLE VI

Any signatory body may by legislative act, after one year's notice to the Commission, withdraw from this compact. Now, therefore, be it

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 the States of Maryland and West Virginia and the Commonwealths of Virginia and Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia to enter into the compact herein before recited, and to each and every part and article thereof: Provided, That nothing contained in such compact shall be construed as impairing or in any manner affecting any right or jurisdiction of the United States in and over the region which forms the subject of this compact.

SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this joint resolution is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, July 11, 1940.

[CHAPTER 209-1ST SESSION]

[S. 1031]

AN ACT

To amend section 243 of the Penal Code of the United States, as amended by the Act of June 15, 1935 (49 Stat. 378), relating to the marking of packages containing wild animals and birds and parts thereof.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 243 of the Act of March 4, 1909, entitled "An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States", as amended by section 201 of the Act of June 15, 1935 (49 Stat. 378), is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 243. All packages or containers in which wild animals or birds, or the dead bodies or parts thereof (except furs, hides, or skins of such animals, for which provision is hereinafter made), or the eggs of such birds are shipped, transported, carried, brought, or conveyed, by any means whatever from one State, Territory, or the District of Columbia to, into, or through another State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or to a foreign country, shall be plainly and clearly marked, labeled, or tagged on the outside thereof with the names and addresses of the shipper and consignee and with an accurate statement showing by number and kind the contents thereof: Provided, That packages or containers in which migratory birds included in any convention to which the United States is a party, or the dead bodies or parts thereof or eggs of such birds, are shipped, transported, carried, brought, or conveyed, as aforesaid, shall be marked labeled, or tagged as prescribed in any such convention or law or regulation thereunder.

"All packages or containers in which the furs, hides, or skins of wild animals are shipped, transported, carried, brought, or conveyed, by any means whatever, from one State, Territory, or the District of Columbia to, into, or through another State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or to a foreign country shall be plainly and clearly marked, labeled, or tagged on the outside thereof with the names and addresses of the shipper and consignee."

Approved, June 19, 1939.

(152)

[CHAPTER 295-3D SESSION]

[H. J. Res. 302]

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 Congress 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.

(153)

[CHAPTER 283-2D SESSION]

(H. R. 6020]

AN ACT

Granting the consent and approval of Congress to an interstate compact relating to the better utilization of the fisheries (marine, shell, and anadromous) of the Atlantic seaboard and creating the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commis

sion.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent and approval of Congress is hereby given to an interstate compact (which shall be operative for not more than fifteen years from the date of the enactment of this Act) relating to the better utilization of the fisheries (marine, shell, and anadromous) of the Atlantic seaboard and creating the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, negotiated and entered into or to be entered into under the authority of Public Resolution Numbered 79, Seventy-sixth Congress, approved June 8, 1940, and now ratified by the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, which compact reads as

follows:

"The contracting states solemnly agree:

"ARTICLE I

"The purpose of this compact is to promote the better utilization of the fisheries, marine, shell and anadromous of the Atlantic seaboard by the development of a joint program for the promotion and protection of such fisheries, and by the prevention of the physical waste of the fisheries from any cause. It is not the purpose of this compact to authorize the states joining herein to limit the produc tion of fish or fish products for the purpose of establishing or fixing the price thereof, or creating and perpetuating monopoly.

"ARTICLE II

"This agreement shall become operative immediately as to those states executing it whenever 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 have executed it in the form that is in accordance with the laws of the executing state and the Congress has given its consent. Any state contiguous with any of the aforementioned states and riparian upon waters frequented by anadromous fish, flowing into waters under the jurisdiction of any of the aforementioned states, may become a party hereto as hereinafter provided.

"ARTICLE III

"Each state joining herein shall appoint three representatives to a Commission hereby constituted and designated as the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. One shall be the executive officer of the administrative agency of such state charged with the conservation of the fisheries resources to which this compact pertains or, if there be more than one officer or agency, the official of that state named by the governor thereof. The second shall be a member of the legislature of such state designated by the Commission or Committee on Interstate Cooperation of such state, or if there be none, or if said Commission on Interstate Cooperation cannot constitutionally designate the said member, such legislator shall be designated by the governor thereof; provided, that if it is constitutionally impossible to appoint a legislator as a commissioner from such state, the second member shall be appointed by the governor of said state in his discretion. The third shall be a citizen who shall have a knowledge of and interest in the marine fisheries problem, to be appointed by the governor. The Commission shall be a body corporate with the powers and duties set forth herein.

"ARTICLE IV

"The duty of the said Commission shall be to make inquiry and ascertain from time to time such methods, practices, circumstances and conditions as may be disclosed for bringing about the conservation and the prevention of the depletion and physical waste of the fisheries, marine, shell and anadromous, of the Atlantic seaboard. The Commission shall have power to recommend the coordination of the exercise of the police powers of the several states within their respective jurisdictions to promote the preservation of those fisheries and their protection against overfishing, waste, depletion or any abuse whatsoever and to assure a continuing yield from the fisheries resources of the aforementioned states.

"To that end the Commission shall draft and, after consultation with the Advisory Committee hereinafter authorized, recommend to the governors and legislatures of the various signatory states legislation dealing with the conservation of the marine, shell and anadromous fisheries of the Atlantic seaboard. The Commission shall, more than one month prior to any regular meeting of the legislature in any signatory state, present to the governor of the state its recommendations relating to enactments to be made by the legislature of that state in furthering the intents and purposes of this compact.

"The Commission shall consult with and advise the pertinent administrative agencies in the states party hereto with regard to problems connected with the fisheries and recommend the adoption of such regulations as it deems advisable.

"The Commission shall have power to recommend to the states party hereto the stocking of the waters of such states with fish and fish eggs, or joint stocking by some or all of the states party hereto, and when two or more of the states shall jointly stock waters the Commission shall act as the coordinating agency for such stocking.