To Revise the Organic Act of the Virgin Islands: Hearings Before the United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Subcommittee on Territories and Insular Possessions, Eighty-Second Congress, Second Session, on Jan. 14-16, Mar. 5, 1952United States. Congress. House. Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular Affairs U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952 - 175 páginas Committee Serial No. 9. Jan. 14 and 15 hearings were held in Charlotte Amalie, V.I.; Jan. 16 hearing was held in Christiansted, V.I. |
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Página 4 - That no law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, and that the free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed; and no religious test shall be required for the exercise of civil or political rights.
Página 145 - If any bill presented to the Governor contain several items of appropriation of money, he may object to one or more of such items while approving of the other portion of the bill.
Página 147 - He shall be responsible for the faithful execution of the laws of the Philippine Islands and of the United States operative within the Philippine Islands, and whenever it becomes necessary he may call upon the commanders of the military and naval forces of the United States...
Página 4 - ... nobility shall be enacted, and no person holding any office of profit or trust...
Página 11 - In each town there shall be a magistrate's court with exclusive original jurisdiction coextensive with the subdivision in which it is situated of all civil cases in which the principal sum claimed does not exceed...
Página 145 - If any bill shall not be returned by the governor within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, it shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the legislature by adjournment prevents its return, in which case it shall be a law if signed by the governor within thirty days after receipt by him; otherwise it shall not be a law.
Página 150 - The rules governing said courts and prescribing the duties of said magistrates and constables, oaths and bonds, the times and places of holding such courts, the disposition of fines, costs, forfeitures, enforcements of judgments, providing for appeals therefrom to the district court, and the disposition, treatment, and pardon of convicts shall be established by order of the President.
Página 151 - ... in case any of the officers whose signatures appear on the bonds or coupons shall cease to be such officers before the delivery of such bonds, such signatures shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if they had remained in office until such delivery.
Página 8 - He shall commission all officers that he may be authorized to appoint. He shall be responsible for the faithful execution of the laws of Porto Rico and of the United States...
Página 145 - ... an amount equal to the sums appropriated in the last appropriation bills for such purposes shall be deemed to be appropriated; and until the legislature shall act in such behalf the treasurer may, with the advice of the governor, make the payments necessary for the purposes aforesaid.