---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 1419"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "1419"
heading: "Right to abandon islands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/1419"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Guano Islands"
---

# §1419. Right to abandon islands


Nothing in this chapter contained shall be construed as obliging the United States to retain possession of the islands, rocks, or keys, after the guano shall have been removed from the same.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 5578.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 5578 derived from act Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 164, § 4, 11 Stat. 120.