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PUBLIC LAW 86-290-SEPT. 21, 1959

(c) The first sentence of subsection (a) of section 7 of said Act (68 Stat. 500; 48 U.S.C. 1573) is amended to read as follows: "Regular sessions of the legislature shall be held annually, conimencing on the second Monday in January (unless the legislature shall by law fix a different date), and shall continue in regular session for not more than sixty consecutive calendar days in any calendar year: Provided-, hoio6ver^ That the regular annual session for each of the years 1959, 1960, and 1961, respectively, shall commence on the second Monday in April and shall continue in regular session for not more than sixty consecutive calendar days." SEC. 3. The second sentence of section 16(a) of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (68 Stat. 504) as amended (48 U.S.C. 1597) is further amended to comprise two sentences to read as follows: "The head of each executive department other than the department of law shall be designated as the commissioner thereof, and the commissioner of finance shall be bonded. The head of the department of law shall be known as the attorney general of the Virgin Islands." SEC. 4. Section 27 of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (48 U.S.C. 1617) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 27. The President shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint a United States attorney for the Virgin Islands to whose office the provisions of chapter 31 of title 28, United States Code, shall apply, except that the Attorney General shall not appoint more than one assistant United States attorney for the Virgin Islands. Except as otherwise provided by law it shall be the duty of the United States attorney to prosecute all offenses against the United States and to conduct all legal proceedings, civil and criminal, to which the Government of the United States is a party in the district court and in the inferior courts of the Virgin Islands. He shall also prosecute in the district court in the name of the government of the Virgin Islands all offenses against the laws of the Virgin Islands which are cognizable by that court unless, at his request or with his consent, the prosecution of any such case is conducted by the attorney general of the Virgin Islands. The United States attorney may, when requested by the Governor or the attorney general of the Virgin Islands, conduct any other legal proceedings to which the government of the Virgin Islands is a party in the district court or the inferior courts of the Virgin Islands. I n the case of a vacancy in the office of United States attorney, the District Court of the Virgin Islands may appoint a United States attorney to serve until the vacancy is filled. The order of appointment by the court shall be filed with the clerk of the court." Approved September 16, 1959.

Regular sions.

Commissioners.

Department of law.

U. S. attorney. Appointment, 62 Stat. 909. 28 USC 5 0 1.

Public Law 86-290 JOINT RESOLUTION

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September 21, 1959

Authorizing the National Geographic Society to erect a memorial on public grounds in the State of Virginia to honor Hear Admiral Richard E. Byrd.

[s. J.Res. 103]

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Rear Adm. R i c h States of America in Congress assembled, That the National Geo- ard E. Byrd memo_^ graphic Society is authorized to erect a memorial on public grounds ^i^. along Memorial Avenue, Arlington County, Virginia (such grounds being now owned by the United States), the purpose of which will be to honor Rear Admiral Eichard E. Byrd.

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