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title_name: "TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS"
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# 48 U.S.C. § 1247a - Transferred

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification Section, act Mar. 24, 1934, ch. 84, § 18, as added Aug. 7, 1939, ch. 502, § 5, 53 Stat. 1231, related to definitions, and has been transferred to section 1395 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.