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WEEK
ENLCED
MARCH 29,
1924,
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Mrs,
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Loretta
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Miriam Huggins,
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Miss Viola Thomas,
Miss
Anita
Williams.
Post Office,
Christiansted,
Virgin
Is-
lands,
March 31,
1924.
B.
R. LARSEN,
Postmaster.
R R
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DIED at the
Hospital yesterday
morn-
ing after
an
operation,
Mr. PHILIP
TAL-
MANN, goldsmith
of
rthis
town.
The fu-
neral
teok place
at 4,30
in the afte.noon.
To those bereaved
by
his
death
we offer
our sincere
sympathy.
TR
ANRRLTRSS WIS
RTR
DT
ee
68TH CONGRESS,
IST SESSION.
S
2786
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH 10,
1924,
Mr. McLEAN (by request)
introduced
the
following bill;
which
was read
twice and
referred
to the Comnmittee
on Territories
and Insular Possessions.
A BILL
ty provide
a
civil government
for
the
Virgin Islands,
and
for other
purposes.
(Continued from yesierday’s Avis)
SEC.
22.
That
the
council
shall
con-
sist
of
thirteen
members
elected
for
terms
ol
one
year by the
gqualified elec-
wors of the Virgin Islands.
Seven
mem-
ters
shall be
elected
from
the island
of
Saint
‘Ihomas,
five
members
shall
be
elected
from
the island
of
Saiat
Croix,
and
one member
shail
be
elected
from
the
island
of
Suint
.]ohn-
No
person
shall be
a member
of the Virgin
Islands
Counecil
who is nnt
an
american
citizen
over
twenty-five
vears
of age,
and
wno
is not
able
to read and write
the English
language,
and who
has
not
been
a
resi-
dezt
of the
Virgin lsiands
for
at
|:ast
SIT
. =ll2
A VIS
t o coasecutive
years.
For
the purpose
of elections Jhereafter
to the council,
the
Virgin
Islands
shall
be
divided
into
thirteen
represéntative
districts,
com-
posed
of contiguygs
and
compact
terri-
tory,
one
of whith
shall
be
(until
the
council
shall otherwise
snzct;
the
island
of Saint John,
and established,
so far
as
practicable,
upon
the basis
of equal
popu-
lation.
The divisio into
and the
demar-
cation
of
such
districts
shall be made
by
the
Governor of the Virgin Islands.
He
shall
make
his
report within
sixty
days
after the approval of this Act,
which
re-
port,
when
approved
by
the
President,
shall
be final.
SEC.
28.
That
the next election
in the
Virgin Islands shall be
held
in the
year
1924,5 upon
thegday
of July.
At such
election
there
shall
be
chosen
councilors
as herein provided.
Thereafter
the
elec-
tions
shall be held
on the
tne first
Tues-
day after the first Monday in November,
beginrning
with
the
year
1%25,
and
every
two
years
thereafter,
and
the
terms
of
office
of
all
officials
who
have heretofore
been
elected
and
whose
terms
would
otherwise
expire
prior
to
the
day
of
July,
1924,
are
hereby
extended
until the
officials
who
may
be elected
to fiil such
offices
on
said
date
shall
have
been
duly
qualified:
Provided,
however,
That
nothing
herein
contained
shall
be {construed
to
limit the
right of the Council of the Virgin Islards
at
any time
to revise
the boundaries
of
representative
districts
and of any
muni-
cipality,
or to abolish
any
municipality
and
the officers proviaed therefor.
SEC.
24.
Thnat
the
term
of office of
counc:lors
chosen
by
the
first
general
election
shall
be until January
1,
1926,
and
the
terms of office of
councilors
and
representatives
chosen
at
subsequent
election=
shall
be
two years
from the
2d
of January
following their
election.
In
case
of vacanecy
among
the members
of
the council,
special elections
may
be held
in the districts wherein
such
vacancy
oc-
curred,
under such regulations
as
may
be
prescribed
by law,
but councilors
elected
in such
cases
shall
hold office only for the
vnexpired
portion
of the
term
wherein
the
vacancy
shail
bave
occurred;
and
no
councilor,
shall,
during
the
time
for
which he shall
be elected,
b 2 appointed
to
any civil office under
the laws of the
Vir-
gin Islands
nor be appointed
to any ofiice
created
by act of the
ccuncil during
the
time for which he shall have been
elected
until
two years
after
his
tertp of
office
shall
have expired.
SEC.
25.
That
membere
of the
Coun-
cil
of
the
Virzin Islands
shall
receive
compensation
at the
rate
of $5 per
day
for the first foriy days of
each
reguiar
session
and $1 per day for each additional
day of such
session
while in
session,
and
mileaze at the rate
of
10 cents
per kilo-
meter tor each kilometer actually or neces-
carily traveled
1n going from their
legis-
ative
‘t:rrieis
to th2
capita:
and
there-
from: to their
p
:: of rosid:ae:
in
their
districts by the usual
routes
of travel.
SEC.
26.
That
the eouncil
shall be the
sole judze of the
elections,
returns,
and
gualifications
of its
members,
and
shall
have and exercise
a!l the
powers
with
re-
speet
to
the
conduct
of its proceedings
that
usually
pertain
to
parliamentary
legislative
bodies.
It
shall
convene
at
the capital
on the third
Monday in Janu-
ary
following tie next
election,
and
or-
ganize
by
the
election
of
a
presiding
officer,
a clerk,
and
such
other
officers
and
assistants
as
may
be required.
SEc.
27.
That
the first regular session
of the
Council
of the Virgin Islands
pro-
vided
for by this Act.,
shall
copvene
on
the
twenty-eighih
day
after
the
first
election
provided
tfor herein,
and regular
sessions
of the council
shall
be held
tien-
nially
thereafter,
convening
on the third
Monday
1n January
of the
year
1926 and
on
the third Monday in
January
of
cach
second
year
thereafter.
The
governor
may call special
scssions
of the council
at
any
time when
in his opinion
the
public
interest
may
require
it, but
no
special
session
shall
continue
longer
than
ten
days,
not
including
Sundays
and
holi-
days,
and
no
lezislation
shall
be
con-
sidered
at such
session
other
than
.het
specified
in
the call.
SEC.
28.
That
the
enacting
clause
of
the
laws
shall
be
as
to
Acts,
"'Be
it
enacted
by the Council
of the Virzin
[s-
lands,’”’ and
as
to resolutions,
‘‘Be it re-
solved
by the
Council of the
Virgin
Is-
lands.””
The
goverror
shall
submit
at
each
regular session
of the council
a
bud-
get of receipts
and expenditures,
which
shall
be the
basis
nos the ensuing
biennial
appropriation
bill.
No
bill shall
become
a law
until it
be
passed
by
a majority
yea-and-nay
vote of all of the members
of
the council,
and
entered
upon
the
journ-
al,
and
be
approved
by
the
governor
within
ten days
thereafter.
If when
a
bill that
has
been
passed
is presented
to
the
governor
for
his signature,
he
ap-
proves
the
same,
he shall
signit; or
if
not, he shall return it with ;his objections
to the council
which shall enter
his objec-
tions
at large
on the journal and
proczed
to reconsider
it. If atter
such
reconsider-
ation,
two-thirds
of all the
members
of
the council shall
agree
to pass
the
same,
it
shall
be
sent
to
the
governor,
who,
in
case
he shall
not
then
approve,
shall
transmit
the same
to the President
of the
United
States.
If the
President
of
the
United States
appiove
the
same,
he shall
sign it, and it shaii become
a law.
lli he
shall
not approve
the
same
he shall
re-
turnfit to the
governor
so stating
and
it
shall not
become
a;law: Provided,
Ihat
the
President
of
the United States
shali
approve
or disapprove
an Act submitted
to
him under
the provisions of this
sec-
tion
within
ninety
days
from
and
af-
ter
its
submission
for
his
approyal
and
if not
approved
within
such
time
it
shall
become
law
the
same
3ag
if
it had
been
specially approved.
(7o b 2 2v:iitaued.