20. {Compensation of Governor, Government Secretary, and staffs, and
 of department heads; method of payment of official salaries; failure
 to appropriate)

 (a) The Governor shall receive an annual salary at the rate provided for
 Governors of Territories and possessions in the Executive Pay Act of 1949.

 (b) The Government Secretary, the heads of the executive departments, and
 the members of the immediate staffs of the Governor and the Government
 Secretary, shall receive annual salaries at rates established by the
 Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the standards provided in the
 Classification Act of 1949.

 (c) The salaries of the Governor, the Government Secretary, and the members
 of their immediate staffs shall be paid by the United States. The salaries of
 the government comptroller and the heads of the executive departments
 shall be paid by the government of the Virgin Islands; and if the legislature
 shall fail to make an appropriation for such salaries, the salaries theretofore
 fixed shall be paid without the necessity of further appropriations
 therefore. ***



 JUDICIAL BRANCH

 21. {District Court of the Virgin Islands, and inferior courts)

 The judicial power of the Virgin Islands shall be vested in a court of record to be
 designated the "District Court of the Virgin Islands", and in such court or courts of
 inferior jurisdiction as may have been or may hereafter be established by local law.



 22. (Jurisdiction of District Court; transfer of actions)

 The District Court of the Virgin Islands shall have the jurisdiction of a district
court of the United States in all causes arising under the Constitution, treaties and
laws of the United States, regardless of the sum or value of the matter in controversy. It
shall have general original jurisdiction in all other causes in the Virgin Islands,
exclusive jurisdiction over which is not conferred by this Act upon the inferior courts of
the Virgin Islands. When it is in the interest of justice to do so the district court may on
motion of any party transfer to the district court any action or proceeding brought in an
inferior court and the district court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such
action or proceeding. The district court shall also have appellate jurisdiction to review
the judgments and orders of the inferior courts of the Virgin Islands to the extent now or
hereafter prescribed by local law. *