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48 U.S.C. § 1708 — Discrimination prohibited in rights of access to, and benefits from, conveyed lands
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No person shall be denied access to, or any of the benefits accruing from, the lands conveyed by this Act, or by the amendment made by this Act, on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, sex, national origin, or ancestry: Provided, however, That this section shall not be construed in derogation of any of the provisions of the April 17, 1900 cession of Tutuila and Aunuu or the July 16, 1904 cession of the Manu’s Islands, as ratified by the Act of February 20, 1929 (45 Stat. 1253) and the Act of May 22, 1929 (46 Stat. 4).
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No person shall be denied access to, or any of the benefits accruing from, the lands conveyed by this Act, or by the amendment made by this Act, on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, sex, national origin, or ancestry: Provided, however, That this section shall not be construed in derogation of any of the provisions of the April 17, 1900 cession of Tutuila and Aunuu or the July 16, 1904 cession of the Manu’s Islands, as ratified by the Act of February 20, 1929 (45 Stat. 1253) and the Act of May 22, 1929 (46 Stat. 4).
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**(a) Ceded to and accepted by United States** The cessions by certain chiefs of the islands of Tutuila and Manua and certain other islands of the Samoan group lying between the thirteenth and fifteenth degrees of latitude south of the Equator and between the one hundred and sixty-seventh and one hundred and seventy-first degrees of longitude west of Greenwich, herein referred to as the islands of eastern Samoa, are accepted, ratified, and confirmed, as of April 10, 1900, and July 16, 1904, respectively.
**(b) Public land laws; revenue** The existing laws of the United States relative to public lands shall not apply to such lands in the said islands of eastern Samoa; but the Congress of the United States shall enact special laws for their management and disposition: Provided, That all revenue from or proceeds of the same, except as regards such part thereof as may be used or occupied for the civil, military, or naval purposes of the United States or may be assigned for the use of the local government, shall be used solely for the benefit of the inhabitants of the said islands of eastern Samoa for educational and other public purposes.
**(c) Government** Until Congress shall provide for the government of such islands, all civil, judicial, and military powers shall be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct; and the President shall have power to remove said officers and fill the vacancies so occasioned.
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**(a)** The Secretary of the Interior shall be authorized to lease or to sell upon such terms as he may deem advantageous to the Government of the United States any property of the United States under his administrative supervision in the Virgin Islands not needed for public purposes.
**(b)**
(1) All right, title, and interest of the United States in the property placed under the control of the government of the Virgin Islands by [section 1405c(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title48-section1405c/a&num=0&edition=prelim), not reserved to the United States by the Secretary of the Interior within one hundred and twenty days after October 5, 1974, is hereby conveyed to such government. The conveyance effected by the preceding sentence shall not apply to that land and other property which on October 5, 1974, is administered by the Secretary of the Interior as part of the National Park System and such lands and other property shall be retained by the United States.
(2) Subject to valid existing rights, title to all property in the Virgin Islands which may have been acquired by the United States from Denmark under the Convention entered into August 16, 1916, not reserved or retained by the United States in accordance with the provisions of Public Law 93–435 (88 Stat. 1210) is hereby transferred to the Virgin Islands government.
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TITLE 48—TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
§ 1707
shall be paramount to, but shall not be deemed
to include, proprietary rights of ownership, or
the rights of management, administration, leas-
ing, use, and development of the lands and nat-
ural resources which are specifically conveyed
to the government of Guam, the Commonwealth
of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Is-
lands, or American Samoa, as the case may be,
by section 1705 of this title.
(d) Status of lands beyond the three-mile limit
Nothing in this Act shall affect the status of
lands beyond the three-mile limit described in
section 1705 of this title.
(Pub. L. 93–435, § 2, Oct. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 1211; Pub.
L. 113–34, § 1(a), Sept. 18, 2013, 127 Stat. 518.)
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This Act, referred to in subsecs. (a), (b), and (d), is
Pub. L. 93–435, Oct. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 1210, which enacted
sections 1705 to 1708 of this title, amended section 1545
of this title, and repealed sections 1701 to 1703 of this
title. For complete classification of this Act to the
Code, see Tables.
AMENDMENTS
2013—Subsecs. (a), (c). Pub. L. 113–34 inserted ‘‘the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,’’ after
‘‘Guam,’’.
§ 1707. Payment of rents, royalties, and fees to
local government
On and after the date of enactment of this Act,
all rents, royalties, or fees from leases, permits,
or use rights, issued prior to such date of enact-
ment by the United States with respect to the
land conveyed by this Act, or by the amendment
made by this Act, and rights of action for dam-
ages for trespass occupancies of such lands shall
accrue and belong to the appropriate local gov-
ernment under whose jurisdiction the land is lo-
cated.
(Pub. L. 93–435, § 4, Oct. 5, 1974, 88 Stat.
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