VIRGIN ISLANDS CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
 REPORT


 DRAFT OF ORGANIC ACT FOR THE TERRITORY OF THE
 VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES

 Adopted by Constitutional Convention of the Virgin Islands
 February 26, 1965


 DRAFT

To provide for the Second Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands.



BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled:

1. SHORT TITLE.

 That this Act may be cited as the Second Revised Organic Act of the Virgin
Islands.

2. GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE OF ACT; DEFINITION OF "VIRGIN
 ISLANDS;" TERRITORIAL DESIGNATION; POWERS AND LEGAL
 STATUS OF GOVERNMENT; CAPITAL AND SEAT OF
 GOVERNMENT.

 (a) The Provisions of this Act, and the name "Virgin Islands" as used in this Act,
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 hereby declared an unincorporated territory
under the constitutional system of the United States of America and shall
hereafter be designated an "Autonomous Territory."

 (b) The government of the Virgin Islands shall have the powers set forth in this
 Act 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 Act.