---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 1240"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "1240"
heading: "Transferred"
status: "transferred"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/1240"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Philippine Islands"
---

# [§1240. Transferred — transferred]



## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section, acts Mar. 24, 1934, ch. 84, § 10, 48 Stat. 463; Aug. 7, 1939, ch. 502, § 3, 53 Stat. 1230, related to recognition of Philippine independence, withdrawal of American sovereignty, and property for diplomatic purposes, and was transferred to section 1394 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.