 | Fayette Alexander Jones - 1916 - 120 pages
...or be both fined and imprisoned within such limits. GUANO DEPOSITS ACTS. §5570, Revised Statutes. Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers...on any island, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdic'ti; n of any other Government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other Government, and... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 474 pages
...upshot was the passage of a federal statute in 1856 which was afterwards amended to the following form : "Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers a deposit of guano on any bland, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdiction of any government, and not occupied by the... | |
 | United States - 1917 - 1110 pages
...Forces, 426. RS 5578. Right to Abandon Islands, 426. Sec. 5570. [Claim of United States to islands.] Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers...the lawful jurisdiction of any other government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other government, and takes peaceable possession thereof, and occupies... | |
 | Henry Graham Crocker - 1919 - 750 pages
...occupancy, colonization, purchase and conquest.4 By the Act of Congress, approved August 18, 1856, when any citizen of the United States discovers a deposit...the lawful jurisdiction of any other Government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other Government, and shall take peaceable possession thereof,... | |
 | United States - 1920 - 648 pages
...shall be forfeited to the United States. PART XL.— GUANO ISLANDS. 410. Guano Islands. E. s., B570. Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers...the lawful jurisdiction of any other government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other government, and takes peaceable possession thereof, and occupies... | |
 | Everett Kimball - 1920 - 650 pages
...Act of i856,3 just referred to, provides: Whenever any citizen of the United States shall " discover a deposit of guano on any island, rock or key, not...the lawful jurisdiction of any other government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other government, and shall take peaceable possession thereof and... | |
 | United States - 1920 - 1054 pages
...whenever any citizen of the United States, after the passage of the act, discovers a deposit of ¿ruano on any island, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other government and shall take peaceable possession thereof and occupy the same, the island rock or key may, at the discretion... | |
 | Joseph Ragland Long - 1922 - 540 pages
...States, and also certain islands known as the Guano Islands. It is provided by act of Congress that: "Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers...the lawful jurisdiction of any other government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other government, and takes peaceable possession thereof and occupies... | |
 | Edward Morehouse Douglas - 1923 - 878 pages
...ISLANDS. An act of Congress approved August 18, 1856, contains the following provisions: SECTION 5570. Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers...lawful jurisdiction of any other government, and* not occupied by the citizens of any other governmen and takes peaceable possession thereof, and occupies... | |
 | United States - 1923 - 716 pages
...to the United States. (June 15, 1917, Title V, sec. 6.) Part XXXIX.— GUANO ISLANDS. Guano Islands. Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers...the lawful jurisdiction of any other government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other government, and takes peaceable possession thereof, and occupies... | |
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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,... 
