Volume 64
Public Law 81–71
To extend the benefits of the Vocational Education Act of 1946 to the Virgin Islands.
Approved March 18, 1950
Statutory text
AN ACT
To extend the benefits of the Vocational Education Act of 1946 to the Virgin Islands.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Virgin Islands shall be entitled to share in the benefits of the Vocational Education Act of 1946, approved August 1, 1946, and any Act amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, upon the same terms and conditions as any of the several States. There is hereby authorized to be
Appropriation authorized.
appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, and annually thereafter, the sum of $40,000, to be available for allotment to the Virgin Islands under such Act and the modifications hereinafter provided.
Sec. 2.
Sums appropriated under authority of section 1 of this Act
Allocation of funds.
shall be allocated for vocational education in (1) agriculture, (2) home economics, (3) trades and industries, and (4) distributive occupations, in the proportions specified by the Vocational Education Act of 1946, except insofar as the Commissioner of Education, with the approval of the Federal Security Administrator, deems it necessary to modify said proportion to meet special conditions existing in the Virgin Islands.
Sec. 3.
The provisions of sections 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the Vocational
Education Act of 1946, relating to the use and payment of sums under said Act, shall apply to sums appropriated under this Act with such modifications as the Commissioner of Education, with the approval of the Federal Security Administrator, shall deem necessary to meet the special conditions existing in the Virgin Islands.
Approved March 18, 1950.