Virgin
ISLANDS.

Custody
of election
documents,

Custody of
ballot boxes.

2. Virgin Islands Constitution No, 7 of W54.
° 7 ‘ 3
and Elections,

et

returning officer who has so wilfully delayed,
neglected or refused duly to make such return of
his election shall forfeit to .the person aggrieved
the sum of five bundred dollors and costs in addi-

tion to all damages sustained,

79. (1) The Supervisor of Elections shall
keep the election documents referred to in sub-
section (1) of section 78 in safe custody and shall
allow no person to have access to them:

Provided that, if an election petition has been
presented questioning the validity of any election
or return, the Supervisor of Elections shall, on
the order of a Judge of the Supreme Court,
deliver to the proper officer of that Court the
documents relating to the election that is in
dispute:

Provided also that after the expiration of
twelve months from the day of any election it
shall be lawful for the Supervisor of Elections to
cause the said documents used at such election to
be burnt,

(2) No such election documents in the cus-
tody of the Supervisor of Elections shall be
inspected or produced except on the order of a
Judge of the Supreme Court; and an order under
this subsection may be made by any such Judge
upon his being satisfied by evidence on oath that
the inspection or production of such eleetion
documents is required for the purpose of institu-
ting or maintaining a prosecution for an offence in
relation to an election or for the purpose of a
petition which has been filed questioning an
election or return. ,

(8) Any such order for the inspection or
production of clection documents may be made
subject to such conditions as to persons, time,
place and mode of inspection or production as the
Judge deems expedient.

80. Forthwith upon making the return to
the writ in accordance with the provisions of

section 78, the returning officer shall cause the