Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 8 — Guano Islands
§ 1418. Employment of land and naval forces in protection of rights
Statutory text
The President is authorized, at his discretion, to employ the land and naval forces of the United States to protect the rights of the discoverer or of his widow, heir, executor, administrator, or assigns.
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. § 5577.)
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1418
(R.S. § 5577.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 5577.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 5577 derived from act Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 164, § 5, 11 Stat. 120.
Credits
(R.S. § 5577.)