appertain to

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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you ask, what are the ten evil acts; there are three which appertain to the body: murder, theft, and impurity. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis

I happen to have copies of two editions of the Nemo, which, though they are undated, must appertain to the year 1518.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Physical qualities, such as colour and tone, were supposed to appertain to the surface of bodies.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William

It is, then, in the republication of foreign works that our publishers ought to find an element of certainty, which cannot appertain to the publication of original and untried productions.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various