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PUBLIC LAW 85-851-AUG. 28, 1958

SEC. 5. Subsections (e) and (f) of section 17 of said Act are amended to read as follows: "(e) The decisions of the government comptroller shall be final except that appeal therefrom may, with the concurrence of the Governor, be taken by the party aggrieved or the head of the Department concerned, within one year from the date of the decision, to the Secretary of the Interior, which appeal shall be in writing and shall specifically set forth the particular action of the government comptroller to which exception is taken, with the reasons and the authorities relied upon for reversing such decision. "(f) If the Secretary of the Interior confirms the decision of the government comptroller, or if the Governor does not concur in the taking of an appeal to the Secretary, then relief may be sought by suit in the District Court of the Virgin Islands if the claim is otherwise within its jurisdiction." SEC. 6. (a) Subsection (c) of section 20 of said Act is amended to read as follows: "(c) The salaries of the Governor, the Government Secretary, the government comptroller, and the members of their immediate staff's shall be paid by the United States. The salaries of the heads of the executive departments shall be paid by the government of the Virgin Islands; and if the legislature shall fail to make an appropriation for such salaries, the salaries theretofore fixed shall be paid without the necessity of further appropriations therefor." (b) This section 6 shall become effective on July 1, 1959. SEC. T. The last sentence of section 24 of said Act is amended to read as follows: "The Attorney General shall appoint a United States marshal for the Virgin Islands, to whose office the provisions of chapter 33 of title 28, United States Code, shall apply." SEC. 8. The first sentence of section 26 of said Act is amended to read as follows: "All criminal cases originating in the district court shall be tried by jury upon demand by the defendant or by the Government." SEC. 9. Wherever the term "district attorney" appears in the seventh and eighth sentences of section 27 of said Act the following term shall be substituted: "United States attorney". SEC. 10. The first sentence of subsection (b) of section 8 of said Act is amended to read as follows: "The legislature of the government of the Virgin Islands may cause to be issued on behalf of said government bonds or other obligations (1) for a specific public improvement or specific public undertaking authorized by an act of the legislature, and (2) for the establishment, construction, operation, maintenance, reconstruction, improvemeiit, or enlargement of other projects, authorized by an act of the legislature, which will, in the legislature's judgment, promote the public interest by economic dev^opment of the Virgin Islands. Such bonds or obligations shall be payable solely from the revenues -directly derived from and attributable to such specific public improvement, public undertaking, or other project." SEC. 11. As used in this Act, the term "Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands" means the Act of July 22, 1954 (68 Stat. 497), as amended (48 U.S.C. secs. 1541 et seq.). Approved August 28, 1958.

1095 Appeals from decisions. 48 USC 1599.

48 USC 1641, Salaries.

48 USC 1614. U. S. Marshall, nppointtnent. 28 USC 541. Trial by Jury.

48 USC 1617.

48 USC 1574. I s 8 u a n c e of bonds.

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