Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 8 — Guano Islands
§ 1419. Right to abandon islands
Statutory text
Nothing in this chapter contained shall be construed as obliging the United States to retain possession of the islands, rocks, or keys, after the guano shall have been removed from the same.
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. § 5578.)
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1419
(R.S. § 5578.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 5578.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 5578 derived from act Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 164, § 4, 11 Stat. 120.
Credits
(R.S. § 5578.)