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[CITE: 48USC1406l]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                        CHAPTER 7--VIRGIN ISLANDS
 
                     SUBCHAPTER II--CIVIL GOVERNMENT
 
Sec. 1406l. Effective date

    This subchapter shall take effect June 22, 1936, but until its 
provisions shall severally become operative as herein provided, the 
corresponding legislative, executive, and judicial functions of the 
existing government shall continue to be exercised as now provided by 
law or ordinance, and the present incumbents of all offices under the 
Government of the Virgin Islands shall continue in office until their 
successors are appointed and have qualified unless sooner removed by 
competent authority.

(June 22, 1936, ch. 699, Sec. 40, 49 Stat. 1817.)
