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48 U.S.C. § 1561 — Rights and prohibitions
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No law shall be enacted in the Virgin Islands which shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law or deny to any person therein equal protection of the laws.
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No law shall be enacted in the Virgin Islands which shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law or deny to any person therein equal protection of the laws.
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**(a) District Court of Guam; unified court system**
(1) The judicial authority of Guam shall be vested in a court established by Congress designated as the “District Court of Guam”, and a judicial branch of Guam which branch shall constitute a unified judicial system and include an appellate court designated as the “Supreme Court of Guam”, a trial court designated as the “Superior Court of Guam”, and such other lower local courts as may have been or shall hereafter be established by the laws of Guam.
(2) The Supreme Court of Guam may, by rules of such court, create divisions of the Superior Court of Guam and other local courts of Guam.
(3) The courts of record for Guam shall be the District Court of Guam, the Supreme Court of Guam, the Superior Court of Guam (except the Traffic and Small Claims divisions of the Superior Court of Guam) and any other local courts or divisions of local courts that the Supreme Court of Guam shall designate.
**(b) Jurisdiction** The District Court of Guam shall have the jurisdiction of a district court of the United States, including, but not limited to, the diversity jurisdiction provided for in [section 1332 of title 28](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1332&num=0&edition=prelim), and that of a bankruptcy court of the United States.
**(c) Original jurisdiction** In addition to the jurisdiction described in subsection (b), the District Court of Guam shall have original jurisdiction in all other causes in Guam, jurisdiction over which is not then vested by the legislature in another court or other courts established by it. In causes brought in the district court solely on the basis of this subsection, the district court shall be considered a court established by the laws of Guam for the purpos
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**(a) Composition and territorial designation** The provisions of this chapter and the name “Virgin Islands” as used in this chapter, shall apply to and include the territorial domain, islands, cays, and waters acquired by the United States through cession of the Danish West Indian Islands by the convention between the United States of America and His Majesty the King of Denmark entered into August 4, 1916, and ratified by the Senate on September 7, 1916 (39 Stat. 1706). The Virgin Islands as above described are declared an unincorporated territory of the United States of America.
**(b) Powers and legal status of government; capital and seat of government** The government of the Virgin Islands shall have the powers set forth in this chapter and shall have the right to sue by such name and in cases arising out of contract, to be sued: Provided, That no tort action shall be brought against the government of the Virgin Islands or against any officer or employee thereof in his official capacity without the consent of the legislature constituted by this chapter. The capital and seat of government of the Virgin Islands shall be located at the city of Charlotte Amalie, in the island of Saint Thomas.
**(c) Administrative supervision by Secretary of the Interior** The relations between such government and 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
§ 1545
shall hereafter be made to the Secretary of the
Interior, and the President is authorized to
place all matters pertaining to the government
of the Virgin Islands under the jurisdiction of
the Secretary of the Interior, except matters re-
lating to the judicial branch of said government
which on July 22, 1954 are under the supervision
of the Director of the Administrative Office of
the United States Courts, and the matters relat-
ing to the United States Attorney and the
United States Marshal which on July 22, 1954 are
under the supervision of the Attorney General.
(July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 30, 68 Stat. 509.)
§ 1545. Lease and sale of public property; convey-
ance of title in certain lands to the govern-
ment of Virgin Islands
(a) The Secretary of the Interior shall be au-
thorized to lease or to sell upon such terms as he
may deem advantageous to the Government of
the United States any property of the United
States under his administrative supervision in
the Virgin Islands not needed for public pur-
poses.
(b)(1) All right, title, and interest of the
United States in the property placed under the
control of the government of the Virgin Islands
by section 1405c(a) of this title, not reserved to
the United States by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior within one hundred and twenty days after
October 5, 1974, is hereby conveyed to such gov-
ernment. The conveyance effected by the pre-
ceding sentence shall not apply to that land and
other property which on October 5, 1974, is ad-
ministered by the Secretary of the Interior as
part of the National Park System and such
lands and other property shall be retained by
the United States.
(2) Subject to valid existing rights, title to all
propert
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