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# 48 U.S.C. § 453 - Transferred

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification Section, act May 28, 1908, ch. 211, § 2, 35 Stat. 424, which related to preference right of United States to purchase of coal for Army and Navy, was transferred to section 193a of Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining.