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48 U.S.C. § 1421f — Title to property transferred
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**(a) Property employed by naval government of Guam** The title to all property, real and personal, owned by the United States and employed by the naval government of Guam in the administration of the civil affairs of the inhabitants of Guam, including automotive and other equipment, tools and machinery, water and sewerage facilities, bus lines and other utilities, hospitals, schools, and other buildings, shall be transferred to the government of Guam within ninety days after August 1, 1950.
**(b) Other property not reserved** All other property, real and personal, owned by the United States in Guam, not reserved by the President of the United States within ninety days after August 1, 1950, is placed under the control of the government of Guam, to be administered for the benefit of the people of Guam, and the legislature shall have authority, subject to such limitations as may be imposed upon its acts by this chapter or subsequent Act of the Congress, to legislate with respect to such property, real and personal, in such manner as it may deem desirable.
**(c) Secretary of the Interior; sale or lease** All property owned by the United States in Guam, the title to which is not transferred to the government of Guam by subsection (a) hereof, or which is not placed under the control of the government of Guam by subsection (b) hereof, is transferred to the administrative supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, except as the President may from time to time otherwise prescribe: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall be authorized to lease or to sell, on such terms as he may deem in the public interest, any property, real and personal, of the United States under his administrative supervision in Guam not needed for public purposes.
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**(a) Property employed by naval government of Guam** The title to all property, real and personal, owned by the United States and employed by the naval government of Guam in the administration of the civil affairs of the inhabitants of Guam, including automotive and other equipment, tools and machinery, water and sewerage facilities, bus lines and other utilities, hospitals, schools, and other buildings, shall be transferred to the government of Guam within ninety days after August 1, 1950.
**(b) Other property not reserved** All other property, real and personal, owned by the United States in Guam, not reserved by the President of the United States within ninety days after August 1, 1950, is placed under the control of the government of Guam, to be administered for the benefit of the people of Guam, and the legislature shall have authority, subject to such limitations as may be imposed upon its acts by this chapter or subsequent Act of the Congress, to legislate with respect to such property, real and personal, in such manner as it may deem desirable.
**(c) Secretary of the Interior; sale or lease** All property owned by the United States in Guam, the title to which is not transferred to the government of Guam by subsection (a) hereof, or which is not placed under the control of the government of Guam by subsection (b) hereof, is transferred to the administrative supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, except as the President may from time to time otherwise prescribe: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall be authorized to lease or to sell, on such terms as he may deem in the public interest, any property, real and personal, of the United States under his administrative supervision in Guam not needed for public purposes.
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The executive power of Guam shall be vested in an executive officer whose official title shall be the “Governor of Guam”. The Governor of Guam, together with the Lieutenant Governor, shall be elected by a majority of the votes cast by the people who are qualified to vote for the members of the Legislature of Guam. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be chosen jointly, by the casting by each voter of a single vote applicable to both offices. If no candidates receive a majority of the votes cast in any election, on the fourteenth day thereafter a runoff election shall be held between the candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor receiving the highest and second highest number of votes cast. The first election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be held on November 3, 1970. Thereafter, beginning with the year 1974, the Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be elected every four years at the general election. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall hold office for a term of four years and until their successors are elected and qualified.
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Guam is declared to be an unincorporated territory of the United States and the capital and seat of government thereof shall be located at the city of Agana, Guam. The government of Guam shall have the powers set forth in this chapter, shall have power to sue by such name, and, with the consent of the legislature evidenced by enacted law, may be sued upon any contract entered into with respect to, or any tort committed incident to, the exercise by the government of Guam of any of its lawful powers. The government of Guam shall consist of three branches, executive, legislative, and judicial, and its relations with the Federal Government in all matters not the program responsibility of another Federal department or agency, shall be under the general administrative supervision of the Secretary of the Interior.
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TITLE 48—TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
§ 1421e
1 See References in Text note below.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1968—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 90–497, § 9(a), repealed sub-
sec. (c) which provided for the payment of transpor-
tation expenses by the United States of all officers and
employees of the government of Guam if their homes
were outside Guam.
Pub. L. 90–497, § 9(b), removed subsection designations
and substituted provisions that the government of
Guam pay the salaries and travel expenses of the Gov-
ernor, Lieutenant Governor, heads of executive depart-
ments, members of the legislature, and government of-
ficers and employees at rates prescribed by the laws of
Guam for provisions setting the salary for the Gov-
ernor and Secretary of Guam and allowing for the pay-
ment of transportation expenses and salaries of certain
officers and employees by the United States.
1965—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 89–100 substituted provisions
empowering the government of Guam to fix and pay
legislative salaries and expenses for provisions which
specifically fixed a sum of $15 per day to be paid each
member for every day the legislature is in session pay-
able out of Congressional appropriations and which re-
quired all other expenses to be paid by the government
of Guam.
1956—Subsec. (a). Act Aug. 1, 1956, substituted ‘‘the
Governor of the Virgin Islands in the Executive Pay
Act of 1949, as heretofore or hereafter amended,’’ for
‘‘Governors of Territories and possessions in the Execu-
tive Pay Act of 1949, but not to exceed $13,125,’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1968 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 90–497, § 9(a), Sept. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 847, pro-
vided that the amendment made by that section is ef-
fective on date of enactment of Pub.
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