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PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 109, 110, 120 -APR. 7, 8, 1938 [52 STAT. Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed insofar as such conflict Toll charge restric- exists. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing tolls to be charged for the use of any one or more of the hereinbefore-named Liquidation provi- bridges except as hereinabove provided, and nothing herein shall be slaymentofcostand construed so as to prohibit the State of Maryland from paying all or oledY tate a- any part of the costs of the construction of any one or more of such bridges or their approaches, and any and all bonds issued for such purposes, from any funds of the State which may now or hereafter be made available for that purpose. Amendment, etc. SEC. 8. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, April 7, 1938. April 7, 1938 [H. R . 8982] [Public, No. 473] [CHAPTER 110] 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 Alaska fisheries. 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 45 Stat. Supp. 1937 (50 Stat. 639), is amended to read as follows: "That section 1 of III, 222a. the Act approved June 6, 1924, entitled 'An Act for the protection 443Stats. 44 2 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: 'Pro- Bristol Bay. vided further, That in the area embracing Bristol Bay and the arms Residence and citi- , e ring zenship requirements, and tributaries thereof, no person shall at any time fsh for or take persons taking salmon n with stake net, etc, salmon with a stake net or set net, for commercial purposes, unless such for commercial pur- person shall be a citizen of the United States and shall have theretofore pos es. 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 com- pliance with the residence requirements of this proviso:'". Approved, April 7, 1938. [CHAPTER 120] April 8, 1938 [I. R. 7277] TPublic, No. 474] AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act to refer the claim of the Menominee Tribe of Indians to the Court of Claims with the absolute right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States", approved September 3, 1935. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Mnominee Tribe United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act ians. entitled "An Act to refer the claim of the Menominee Tribe of Indians to the Court of Claims, with the absolute right to appeal 49 Stat. 1085 . to the Supreme Court of the United States" (Public, Numbered 413, Seventy-fourth Congress), approved September 3, 1935, is hereby amended in the following particulars: Section repealed. Section 2 of said Act is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof the following is enacted: clrosecution ofsts "SEC. 2. The Menominee Tribe of Indians is hereby empowered clis ;separate suitt permitted, to prosecute any and all of its claims by bringing at its election, acting through its attorneys, a suit or suits, as party plaintiff, against the United States, as party defendant, by filing a petition or petitions in the Court of Claims and serving with respect to each petition a copy thereof on the Attorney General of the United InFcts tone etorth States. Such petition or petitions shall set forth the facts on which the claims for recovery are based and shall be verified by the attor- 208