there should be no expectation of the territory being
 incorporated into the United States for eventual
 statehood.)

B. The city of Charlotte Amalie, on St. Thomas, was
 designated as the capital and seat of government.

C. Language was added to property and income as
 qualifications that could not be imposed on voters.
 (This was very important for Puerto Ricans and other
 non-English language citizens, some of whom had
 been unable to vote because of the 1936 English
 literacy requirement.)

D. Legislative power was vested in a unicameral body,
 designated as the Legislature of the Virgin Islands.
 It would be composed of eleven members to be
 known as senators. Five senators were to be
 elected from the three legislative districts: two each
 from St. Thomas and St. Croix and one from St.
 John. Six senators were to be elected at-large, but
 each voter could vote for only two of the six at-large
 members. (This new legislature structure
 represented a profound change, ending the almost
 century-old tradition of two legislatures that Denmark
 had established in 1863.)

E. Regular sessions of the Legislature were to be held
 annually, beginning on the second Monday in April.

F. The Legislature was given authority to approve the
 issuance of government bonds or other obligations
 for specific public improvements.

G. The President of the United States was to appoint a
 commission of seven persons, at least three of
 whom were to be Virgin Islands' residents, to review
 federal statutes and make recommendations
 regarding their applicability for the Virgin Islands.

H. The Secretary of the Interior was to arrange for the
 preparation, at Federal expense, of the Virgin
 Islands Code, which would be a consolidation,
 codification and revision of all local laws and
 ordinances in force in the Virgin Islands.