Executive Order 10079—Transferring Certain Property in the Virgin Islands to the Permanent Control and Jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior

WHEREAS Executive Order No. 5602 of April 20, 1931, transferred certain lands, buildings, and improvements in the Virgin Islands permanently to the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior for use in the administration of the government of the Virgin Islands, the property so transferred being enumerated under Class One of the order; and

WHEREAS the said Executive order also transferred certain other lands, buildings, improvements, and furnishings in the Virgin Islands temporarily to the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior for use in the administration of the government of the Virgin Islands, on condition that the premises be returned to the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the navy when required for naval use, the property so transferred being enumerated under Class Two of the order; and

WHEREAS the property enumerated under the said Class Two is no longer required for naval use but is needed by the Secretary of the Interior for permanent use in the administration of the government of the Virgin Islands:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of the United States, approved June 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1807), and as President of the United States, it is ordered that all the lands, buildings, improvements, and furnishings enumerated under Class Two of the said Executive Order No. 5602 of April 20, 1931, be, and they are hereby, transferred permanently to the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior for use in the administration of the government of the Virgin Islands.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

September 9, 1949