Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 12 — Virgin Islands [1954]
§ 1544. Reports by Governor; jurisdiction of Secretary of the Interior; exceptions
Statutory text
All reports required by law to be made by the Governor to any official of the United States shall hereafter be made to the Secretary of the Interior, and the President is authorized to place all matters pertaining to the government of the Virgin Islands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, except matters relating to the judicial branch of said government which on are under the supervision of the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, and the matters relating to the United States Attorney and the United States Marshal which on are under the supervision of the Attorney General.
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. 83–558 § 30 · 68 Stat. 587
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1544
(July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 30, 68 Stat. 509.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 30, 68 Stat. 509.)
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Credits
(July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 30, 68 Stat. 509.)