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52 STAT.] 75TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CHS. 227, 228 , 23 --MAY 16, 17, 1938 private profit, or from such an agency to an organization, institution, public library, or association for the blind not conducted for private profit, or to a blind person, may be transmitted through the mails at the rate of 1 cent per pound or fraction thereof; under such regu- lations as the Postmaster General may prescribe. "The Postmaster General may in his discretion extend this rate of 1 cent per pound or fraction thereof to reproducers for sound- reproduction records for the blind, or parts thereof, which are the property of State governments or subdivisions thereof, or of public libraries, or of private agencies for the blind not conducted for private profit, or of blind individuals, under such regulations as he may prescribe. "All letters written in point print or raised characters or on sound- reproduction records used by the blind, when unsealed, shall be transmitted through the mails as third-class matter." Approved, May 16, 1938. 379 Extension of rate to reproducers owned by State governments, etc. Transmission of let- ters written in raised characters, etc. [CHAPTER 228] JOINT RESOLUTION To permit a compact or agreement between the States of Idaho and Wyoming respecting the disposition and apportionment of the waters of the Snake River and its tributaries, and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That consent of Congress is hereby given to the States of Idaho and Wyoming to negotiate and enter into a compact or agreement not later than January 1, 1940, providing for an equitable division and apportion- ment among said States of the water supply of the Snake River and of the streams tributary thereto, upon conditions that a suitable per- son shall be appointed by the President of the United States, from the Department of the Interior, who shall participate in said nego- tiations as the representative of the United States and shall make report to Congress of the proceedings and of any compact or agree- ment entered into: Provided, That any such compact or agreement shall not be binding or obligatory upon any of the parties thereto unless and until the same shall have been approved by the legisla- tures of each of said States and by the Congress of the United States: And provided further, That the rights of other nonparticipating interested States shall not be jeopardized by such compact: Provided further, That nothing in this Act shall apply to any waters within the Yellowstone National Park or the Grand Teton National Park or shall establish any right or interest in or to any lands within the boundaries thereof or any subsequent additions thereto. SEC. 2 . The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, May 16, 1938. [CHAPTER 234] AN ACT To convey to the University of Alaska a tract of land for use as the site of a fur farm experiment station. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby conveyed to the University of Alaska, a corporation created, estab- lished, and existing under and by virtue of an Act of the Legislature May 16, 1938 [H. J. Res. 150] [Pub. Res., No. 94] Snake River. Consent given to compact between Idaho and Wyoming for division of waters of. Federal participa- tion in negotiations. Report to Congress. Provisos. Approval. Protection of rights of other States. Waters of designat- ed national parks not affected. Amendment, etc. May 17, 1938 [H. R . 9912] [Public, No. 624] University of Alas- ka. Conveyance of cer. tain land to.