Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 7 — Virgin Islands
§ 1405. Geographical application of subchapter; land and waters included in term “Virgin Islands”
Statutory text
The provisions of this subchapter, and the name “the Virgin Islands” as used in this subchapter, shall apply to and include the territorial domain, lands and waters acquired by the United States through cession of the Danish West Indian Islands by the convention between the United States of America and His Majesty the King of Denmark entered into , and ratified by the Senate on (39 Stat. L. 1706).
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 74–699 § 1 · 49 Stat. 869
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1405
(June 22, 1936, ch. 699, § 1, 49 Stat. 1807.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 22, 1936, ch. 699, § 1, 49 Stat. 1807.)
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Credits
(June 22, 1936, ch. 699, § 1, 49 Stat. 1807.)