Territory included under name Guam
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Title 48—TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS > CHAPTER 8A—GUAM > SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL PROVISIONS
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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.
( Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, § 2 , 64 Stat. 384 .)
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