Federal · Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
48 U.S.C. § 1421: Territory included under name Guam
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The territory ceded to the United States in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain, signed at Paris, December 10, 1898 , and proclaimed April 11, 1899 , and known as the island of Guam in the Marianas Islands, shall continue to be known as Guam.
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