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# 16 U.S.C. § 343 - Repealed. Pub. L. 116–9, title II, § 2108(d)(1), Mar. 12, 2019, 133 Stat. 730

## Notes

Section, act Feb. 26, 1919, ch. 45, § 3, 40 Stat. 1179, authorized the Secretary of the Interior to accept property on Mount Desert Island.