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[CITE: 48USC1507]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                    CHAPTER 11--ALIEN OWNERS OF LAND
 
Sec. 1507. Public lands

    This chapter shall not in any manner be construed to authorize 
aliens to acquire title from the United States to any of the public 
lands of the United States or to in any manner affect or change the laws 
regulating the disposal of the public lands of the United States.

(Mar. 3, 1887, ch. 340, Sec. 7, as added Mar. 2, 1897, ch. 363, 29 Stat. 
619; amended Feb. 23, 1905, ch. 733, Sec. 1, 33 Stat. 733.)

                          Codification

    Act Feb. 23, 1905, set out as section 1508 of this title, made 
sections 1501 to 1507 of this title applicable to the District of 
Columbia, on the basis of which certain provisions of this section were 
omitted.
    Section was formerly classified to section 77 of Title 8, Aliens and 
Nationality.
