Session laws of the Virgin Islands: title varies, Jan., 1955–, 1st sess.–, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, Office of the Government Secretary,
1955-69, and Office of the Lieutenant Governor, 1970-. (The Virgin Islands, a group of about 100 small islands lying East of Puerto Rico, are divided
politically between the U.S. and the U.K. The U. S. V. I., with a population of about 105,000 in the mid-1990s, was purchased from Denmark in 1917 for $25M
as a strategic outpost for the Panama Canal. It is governed under the terms of a U.S. law of 1954, that established a locally-elected Governor and
Senate. The Senate, functioning as a uni-cameral legislature first met in 1955.)
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