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title_number: 48
title_name: "TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS"
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# 48 U.S.C. § 1406m - Short title

## Text

This subchapter may be cited as the Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of the United States.

(June 22, 1936, ch. 699, § 41, 49 Stat. 1817.)