Claire Gilbert's List: Ownership Rights

• Florida immediately claimed ownership of the galleon pursuant to a Florida  statute
• many valuable artifacts of the galleon were discovered. In the meantime, in  proceedings unrelated to the salvage operations, it was held in United States v.  Florida, 420 U.S. 531 , that, as against Florida, the United States was entitled  to the lands, minerals, and other natural resources in the area in which the  remains of the galleon had come to rest.
• The Eleventh Amendment did not bar the process issued by the District Court to  secure possession of the artifacts held by the state officials.
• does not require - or permit - a determination of the State's ownership of  the [458 U.S. 670, 672] artifacts, and hence the Court of  Appeals improperly adjudicated the State's right to the artifacts. Pp. 699-700.

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• Exempts the owner of privately owned land or a guest of the owner from obtaining  a permit from the Maryland Historical Trust for excavation or other activity at  archeological sites on that land. Enables owners to petition the trust for  protection of archeological sites on privately owned land if the trust  determines that the property is eligible for the Maryland Register of Historic  Properties and warrants such protection.
• Requires a permit from the Maryland Historical Trust for a person to excavate,  appropriate, injure, or destroy, any terrestrial archeological site on state  owned or controlled land. Enables the Maryland Historical Trust to grant a  permit for such excavation to any qualified person or institution
• Provides for state ownership of any object or material of historical or  archeological interest or value found on a submerged or terrestrial  archeological site on state lands and requires the deposit of such objects for  permanent preservation in a museum,
• Requires a permit from the Maryland Historical Trust consistent with the  provisions of §5-625 through §5-627 for a person who is trained in archeology to  excavate or remove archeological, prehistoric, or historic features from a cave  on state owned or controlled land or on privately owned land
• (4) Prohibits the Department of Health from disclosing or allowing public  inspection of information in a burial-transit permit record about the location  of the site of a disinterment or reinterment if a local burial sites advisory  board or the director of the Maryland Historic Trust determines that the site is  historic property as defined in Art

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• archaeological remains and artifacts on state owned lands, including submerged  lands like rivers and streams. To protect state owned archaeological sites from  damage, the law prohibits disturbance of sites and collection of artifacts  without the Division's permission

• Rosetta Stone, which was discovered in Egypt by Napoleon's French troops in 1799  and then seized by England as war spoils two years later, has resided in  London's British Museum for more than 200 years. Today, Egypt views the stone as  a national treasure that has been stolen,