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[CITE: 48USC1411]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                        CHAPTER 8--GUANO ISLANDS
 
Sec. 1411. Guano districts; claim by United States

    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.

(R.S. Sec. 5570.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5570 derived from act Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 164, Sec. 1, 11 
Stat. 119.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1415, 1417 of this title.
