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[CITE: 48USC1505]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                    CHAPTER 11--ALIEN OWNERS OF LAND
 
Sec. 1505. Proceedings for escheat of improperly held lands

    It shall be the duty of the Attorney General of the United States, 
when he shall be informed or have reason to believe that lands in any of 
the Territories of the United States are being held contrary to the 
provisions of this chapter, to institute or cause to be instituted suit 
in behalf of the United States in the district court of the Territory in 
the district where such land or a part thereof may be situated, praying 
for the escheat of the same on behalf of the United States to the United 
States. Before any such suit is instituted the Attorney General shall 
give or cause to be given ninety days' notice by registered letter of 
his intention to sue, or by personal notice directed to or delivered to 
the owner of said land, or the person who last rendered the same for 
taxation, or his agent, and to all other persons having an interest in 
such lands of which he may have actual or constructive notice. In the 
event personal notice cannot be obtained in some one of the modes above 
provided, then said notice shall be given by publication in some 
newspaper published in the county where the land is situate, and if no 
newspaper is published in said county then the said notice shall be 
published in some newspaper nearest said county.

(Mar. 3, 1887, ch. 340, Sec. 5, as added Mar. 2, 1897, ch. 363, 29 Stat. 
619.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 75 of Title 8, Aliens and 
Nationality.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1503 of this title.
