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[CITE: 48USC1502]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                    CHAPTER 11--ALIEN OWNERS OF LAND
 
Sec. 1502. Previously acquired lands; bona fide resident aliens; 
        mining or incorporated village lands
        
    This chapter shall not apply to land owned in any of the Territories 
of the United States by aliens, which was acquired on or before March 3, 
1887, so long as it is held by the then owners, their heirs or legal 
representatives, nor to any alien who shall become a bona fide resident 
of the United States, and any alien who shall become a bona fide 
resident of the United States, or shall have declared his intention to 
become a citizen of the United States in the manner provided by law, 
shall have the right to acquire and hold lands in either of the 
Territories of the United States upon the same terms as citizens of the 
United States. If any such resident alien shall cease to be a bona fide 
resident of the United States then such alien shall have ten years from 
the time he ceases to be such bona fide resident in which to alienate 
such lands. This chapter shall not be construed to prevent any persons 
not citizens of the United States from acquiring or holding lots or 
parcels of lands in any incorporated or platted city, town, or village, 
or in any mine or mining claim, in any of the Territories of the United 
States.

(Mar. 3, 1887, ch. 340, Sec. 2, 24 Stat. 477; Mar. 2, 1897, ch. 363, 29 
Stat. 618.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 72 of Title 8, Aliens and 
Nationality.
