Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 11 — Alien Owners of Land
§ 1508. Application to District of Columbia
Statutory text
Aliens shall have the same rights and privileges concerning the acquisition, holding, owning, and disposition of real estate in the District of Columbia as are conferred upon aliens in respect of real estate in the Territories of the United States by this chapter.
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.
Pub. L. 58–733 § 1 · 33 Stat. 733
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1508
(Feb. 23, 1905, ch. 733, § 1, 33 Stat. 733.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Feb. 23, 1905, ch. 733, § 1, 33 Stat. 733.)
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Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 78 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.
Section was not enacted as part of act Mar. 3, 1887, ch. 340, 24 Stat. 476, which comprises this chapter.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Repeals
Act Feb. 23, 1905, ch. 733, § 2, 33 Stat. 733, repealed all laws and parts of laws so far as they conflict with the provisions of this section.
Credits
(Feb. 23, 1905, ch. 733, § 1, 33 Stat. 733.)