Title 48 — Territories and Insular PossessionsRelease 119-90
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Title 48 › Chapter 3— HAWAII › § 9
Summary
Changes Section 1 of the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 869) by taking out a phrase that listed the nation and certain territories and putting in new wording instead. The new wording refers specifically to the U.S. states and separately to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
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Title 48, §9
Territories and Insular Possessions — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
section 1 of the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 869), as amended, is further amended by striking out the words ‘the United States, including the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, and Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands’ and inserting in lieu thereof the words ‘the States of the United States and in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands’.
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Citation
48 U.S.C. § 9
Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Last Updated
May 14, 2026
Release point: 119-90