Statutory Text

48 U.S.C. § 1411 — Guano districts; claim by United States

U.S.C. Title 48 - TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS 48 U.S.C. United States Code, 2023 Edition Title 48 - TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS CHAPTER 8 - GUANO ISLANDS Sec. 1411 - Guano districts; claim by United States From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov

§1411. Guano districts; claim by United States

Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers a deposit of guano on any island, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other government, and takes peaceable possession thereof, and occupies the same, such island, rock, or key may, at the discretion of the President, be considered as appertaining to the United States.

(R.S. §5570.)

Editorial Notes

Codification R.S. §5570 derived from act Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 164, §1, 11 Stat. 119.

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Root-LD Entity Data

◈ Machine-Readable Provenance Record Root-LD v1.0 · boisestandard.org

Federation ID

BS-USC48-SEC-8D8A27

Entity Class

STATUTE / FEDERAL-CODE-SECTION

Domain Signature

boisestandard.org

Citation

48 U.S.C. § 1411

Jurisdiction

Federal — United States

Status

✓ ACTIVE

Source

PRIMARY-SOURCE

Source Verified

✓ TRUE

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Semantic Edges

Pending — corpus passes queued

The statutory text of 48 U.S.C. § 1411 is reproduced from the official United States Code as published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives (uscode.house.gov).

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