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[CITE: 48USC1576]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                       CHAPTER 12--VIRGIN ISLANDS
 
                   SUBCHAPTER III--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
 
Sec. 1576. General elections; time; transfer of Council 
        functions, property, etc.
        
    The next general election in the Virgin Islands shall be held on 
November 2, 1954. At such time there shall be chosen the entire 
membership of the legislature as herein provided. Thereafter the general 
elections shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in 
November, beginning with the year 1956, and every two years thereafter. 
The Municipal Council of Saint Thomas and Saint John, and the Municipal 
Council of Saint Croix, existing on July 22, 1954, shall continue to 
function until January 10, 1955, at which time all of the functions, 
property, personnel, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations 
and funds of the governments of the municipality of Saint Thomas and 
Saint John and the municipality of Saint Croix shall be transferred to 
the government of the Virgin Islands.

(July 22, 1954, ch. 558, Sec. 10, 68 Stat. 502.)
