Volume 49
Public Law 74–228
To amend section 21 of the Act approved June 5, 1920, entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion and maintenance of the American merchant marine, to repeal certain emergency legislation, and provide for the disposition, regulation, and use of property acquired thereunder, and for other purposes”, as applied to the Virgin Islands of the United States.
Approved April 16, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 21 of the Act approved June 5, 1920, entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion and maintenance of the American merchant marine, to repeal certain emergency legislation, and provide for the disposition, regulation, and use of property acquired thereunder, and for other purposes”, as applied to the Virgin Islands of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 21 of
Virgin Islands of the United States.
Vol. 41, p. 997.
U. S. C., p. 2066.
the Act approved June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. L. 997), entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion and maintenance of the American merchant marine, to repeal certain emergency legislation and provide for the disposition, regulation, and use of property acquired thereunder, and for other purposes”, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following proviso: “And provided further, That the coastwise
Extension of coast wise laws to, deferred until date fixed by Presidential proclamation.
laws of the United States shall not extend to the Virgin Islands of the United States until the President of the United States shall, by proclamation, declare that such coastwise laws shall extend to the Virgin Islands and fix a date for the going into effect of same.”
Approved, April 16, 1936.