Volume 79
Public Law 89–98
To amend the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands to provide for the payment of legislative salaries and expenses by the government of the Virgin Islands.
Approved July 30, 1965
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands to provide for the payment of legislative salaries and expenses by the government of the Virgin Islands.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (e)
Virgin Islands.
Legislators, salaries and expenses.
of section 6 of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (68 Stat. 497, 499), as amended (73 Stat. 568; 48 U.S.C. 1572(e)), is further amended to read as follows:
“(e) Each member of the legislature shall be paid such compensation and shall receive such additional allowances or benefits as may be fixed under the laws of the Virgin Islands. Such compensation, allowances, or benefits, together with all other legislative expenses, shall be appropriated by, and paid out of funds of, the government of the Virgin Islands.”
Approved July 30, 1965.