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48 U.S.C. § 1411 — Guano districts; claim by United States

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When a United States citizen discovers and peacefully occupies an unclaimed guano deposit on an island, rock, or key, the President may treat that place as belonging to the United States.

If a United States citizen discovers guano on an island, rock, or key that is not under another government’s lawful jurisdiction and is not occupied by that government’s citizens, and peacefully takes and occupies it, the President may decide that the island, rock, or key belongs to the United States.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers a deposit of guano on any island, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other government, and takes peaceable possession thereof, and occupies the same, such island, rock, or key may, at the discretion of the President, be considered as appertaining to the United States.

Source credit: (R.S. § 5570.)

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