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[CITE: 48USC1415]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                        CHAPTER 8--GUANO ISLANDS
 
Sec. 1415. Restrictions upon exportation

    No guano shall be taken from any island, rock, or key mentioned in 
section 1411 of this title, except for the use of the citizens of the 
United States or of persons resident therein. The discoverer, or his 
widow, heir, executor, administrator, or assigns, shall enter into bond, 
in such penalty and with such sureties as may be required by the 
President, to deliver the guano to citizens of the United States, for 
the purpose of being used therein, and to none others, and at the price 
prescribed, and to provide all necessary facilities for that purpose 
within a time to be fixed in the bond; and any breach of the provisions 
thereof shall be deemed a forfeiture of all rights accruing under and by 
virtue of this chapter.

(R.S. Sec. 5574.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5574 derived from acts Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 164, Sec. 2, 11 
Stat. 119; July 28, 1866, ch. 298, Sec. 3, 14 Stat. 328; Apr. 2, 1872, 
ch. 81, Sec. 1, 17 Stat. 48.
    An additional provision of R.S. Sec. 5574 suspending this section 
for 5 years from and after July 14, 1872, in relation to all persons who 
had complied with the provisions of that title of the Revised Statutes, 
was omitted as temporary.
