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[CITE: 48USC1451]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
         CHAPTER 10--TERRITORIAL PROVISIONS OF A GENERAL NATURE
 
Sec. 1451. Rights of Indians not impaired; boundaries

    Nothing in title 23 of the Revised Statutes shall be construed to 
impair the rights of person or property pertaining to the Indians in any 
Territory, so long as such rights remain unextinguished by treaty 
between the United States and such Indians, or to include any Territory 
which, by treaty with any Indian tribe, is not, without the consent of 
such tribe, embraced within the territorial limits or jurisdiction of 
any State or Territory; but all such territory shall be excepted out of 
the boundaries, and constitute no part of any Territory now or hereafter 
organized until such tribe signifies its assent to the President to be 
embraced within a particular Territory. As used herein, the term 
``Territory'' does not include the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, American 
Samoa, Guam, or the Northern Mariana Islands.

(R.S. Sec. 1839; Pub. L. 98-213, Sec. 15(a), Dec. 8, 1983, 97 Stat. 
1462.)

                       References in Text

    Title 23 of the Revised Statutes, referred to in text, was in the 
original ``this Title'', meaning title XXIII of the Revised Statutes, 
consisting of R.S. Secs. 1839 to 1976, and which, insofar as classified 
to the Code, is classified to sections 1451 to 1455, 1457 to 1460a, 
1463, 1463a, 1465, 1467 to 1470, 1480, and 1482 to 1485 of this title 
and to sections 644 to 647, 649, and 655 to 657 of Title 16, 
Conservation. For complete classification of R.S. Secs. 1839 to 1976 to 
the Code, see Tables.

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 1839 derived from N.M., act Sept. 9, 1850, ch. 49, Sec. 2, 
9 Stat. 447. Utah, act Sept. 9, 1850, ch. 51, Sec. 1, 9 Stat. 453. 
Wash., act Mar. 2, 1853, ch. 90, Sec. 1, 10 Stat. 172. Colo., act Feb. 
28, 1861, ch. 59, Sec. 1, 12 Stat. 172. Dak., act Mar. 2, 1861, ch. 86, 
Sec. 1, 12 Stat. 239. Ariz., act Feb. 24, 1863, ch. 56, Sec. 1, 12 Stat. 
664. Idaho, act Mar. 3, 1863, ch. 117, Sec. 1, 12 Stat. 808. Mont., act 
May 26, 1864, ch. 95, Sec. 1, 13 Stat. 85. Wyo., act July 25, 1868, ch. 
235, Sec. 1, 15 Stat. 178.


                               Amendments

    1983--Pub. L. 98-213 inserted provisions excluding from the term 
``Territory'' the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, or 
the Northern Mariana Islands.
