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[CITE: 43USC1315]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                       CHAPTER 29--SUBMERGED LANDS
 
  SUBCHAPTER II--LANDS BENEATH NAVIGABLE WATERS WITHIN STATE BOUNDARIES
 
Sec. 1315. Rights acquired under laws of United States 
        unaffected
        
    Nothing contained in this subchapter or subchapter I of this chapter 
shall affect such rights, if any, as may have been acquired under any 
law of the United States by any person in lands subject to this 
subchapter or subchapter I of this chapter and such rights, if any, 
shall be governed by the law in effect at the time they may have been 
acquired: Provided, however, That nothing contained in this subchapter 
or subchapter I of this chapter is intended or shall be construed as a 
finding, interpretation, or construction by the Congress that the law 
under which such rights may be claimed in fact or in law applies to the 
lands subject to this subchapter or subchapter I of this chapter, or 
authorizes or compels the granting of such rights in such lands, and 
that the determination of the applicability or effect of such law shall 
be unaffected by anything contained in this subchapter or subchapter I 
of this chapter.

(May 22, 1953, ch. 65, title II, Sec. 8, 67 Stat. 32.)
