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title_name: "TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS"
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# 48 U.S.C. § 2 - Repealed. Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, § 53, 70A Stat. 641

## Notes

Section, acts June 3, 1916, ch. 134, § 14, 39 Stat. 176; June 4, 1920, ch. 227, subch. I, § 14, 41 Stat. 769, prescribed composition of Bureau of Insular Affairs.