§1505 Proceedings for Escheat of Improperly Held Lands

Summary

The Attorney General must sue in the territory’s district court to have land taken back for the United States when he learns the land is being held improperly. He must give ninety days’ notice by registered letter or by delivering it to the owner, the person who last reported the land for taxes, their agent, and anyone else he knows or should know has an interest. If notice can’t be given that way, he must publish the notice in a newspaper in the county where the land is, or in the nearest county’s paper if none is published there.