48-U.S.C.-1507

§1507 – Public Lands

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Title 48 > Chapter 11 > Section 1507

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• Reference: Section 1507
• Legend: §1507 – Public Lands
• USCode Year: 2013

Provision Content

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, §7, as added Mar. 2, 1897, ch. 363, 29 Stat. 619; amended Feb. 23, 1905, ch. 733, §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.

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Chapter 11 – Alien Owners of Land in the Legal Encyclopedia: Territories

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