Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 8 — Guano Islands
§ 1411. Guano districts; claim by United States
Statutory text
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.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
(R.S. § 5570.)
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1411
(R.S. § 5570.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 5570.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 5570 derived from act Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 164, § 1, 11 Stat. 119.
Credits
(R.S. § 5570.)