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[CITE: 48USC1662]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                        CHAPTER 13--EASTERN SAMOA
 
Sec. 1662. Sovereignty of United States extended over Swains 
        Island
        
    The sovereignty of the United States over American Samoa is extended 
over Swains Island, which is made a part of American Samoa and placed 
under the jurisdiction of the administrative and judicial authorities of 
the government established therein by the United States.

(Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 563, 43 Stat. 1357.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 1431 of this title.


      Transfer of Personal Property to Government of American Samoa

    Pub. L. 96-597, title I, Sec. 101, Dec. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 3477, 
provided that: ``Notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject 
to valid existing rights, all right, title, and interest of the 
Government of the United States in personal property situated in 
American Samoa shall be transferred, without reimbursement, to the 
American Samoa government on October 1, 1981, unless the agency of the 
Government of the United States having administrative responsibility for 
the property advises the Secretary of the Interior in writing before the 
date of transfer that it has a continuing requirement for such 
property.''


      Transfer of Certain Property to Government of American Samoa

    Pub. L. 87-158, Aug. 17, 1961, 75 Stat. 392, authorized the 
Secretary of the Navy to transfer, without reimbursement or transfer of 
funds, to the government of American Samoa, within ninety days after 
August 17, 1961, title to all property, real and personal, located in 
American Samoa on that date which was owned by the United States and was 
within the administrative supervision of the Department of the Navy on 
such date.


                Submerged Lands, Conveyance to Territory

    Conveyance of submerged lands to the government of American Samoa, 
see section 1701 et seq. of this title.

    Ex. Ord. No. 10264. Transfer of Administration of American Samoa

    Ex. Ord. No. 10264, eff. June 29, 1951, 16 F.R. 6419, provided:
    1. The administration of American Samoa is hereby transferred from 
the Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of the Interior, such 
transfer to become effective on July 1, 1951.
    2. The Department of the Navy and the Department of the Interior 
shall proceed with the plans for the transfer of administration of 
American Samoa as embodied in the above-mentioned memorandum of 
understanding between the two departments.
    3. When the transfer of administration made by this order becomes 
effective, the Secretary of the Interior shall take such action as may 
be necessary and appropriate, and in harmony with applicable law, for 
the administration of civil government in American Samoa.
    4. The executive departments and agencies of the Government are 
authorized and directed to cooperate with the Departments of the Navy 
and Interior in the effectuation of the provisions of this order.
    5. The said Executive order of February 19, 1900 [Ex. Ord. 125-A], 
is revoked, effective July 1, 1951.
                                                         Harry S Truman.
