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[CITE: 48USC1501]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                    CHAPTER 11--ALIEN OWNERS OF LAND
 
Sec. 1501. Lands in Territories

    No alien or person who is not a citizen of the United States, or who 
has not declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States 
in the manner provided by law shall acquire title to or own any land in 
any of the Territories of the United States except as hereinafter 
provided. The prohibition of this section shall not apply to cases in 
which the right to hold or dispose of lands in the United States is 
secured by existing treaties to citizens or subjects of foreign 
countries, which rights, so far as they may exist by force of any such 
treaty, shall continue to exist so long as such treaties are in force, 
and no longer.

(Mar. 3, 1887, ch. 340, Sec. 1, 24 Stat. 476; Mar. 2, 1897, ch. 363, 29 
Stat. 618.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 71 of Title 8, Aliens and 
Nationality.
