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1940 St.Thomas & St. John [i] (1940)

handle is hein.ssl/ssvi0042 and id is 1 raw text is: ORDINANCE
to amend Ordinance of June 1, 1937, creating an Official Lottery in the Muni-
cipality of St. Thomas and St. John to be known as the St. Thomas Virgin Isl-
ands Lottery, to provide funds for hospitalization, sanitation, education, poor
relief; and for other purposes, as amended by Ordinance of November 8, 1937;
January 21, 1938; December 21, 1938 and July 1, 1939.
Be it enacted by the Municipal Council of St. Thomas and St. John in session assembled:
That the Ordinance creating an Official Lottery in the Municipality of St. Thomas and
St. John to be known as the St. Thomas Virgin Islands Lottery; to provide funds for hos-
pitalization, sanitation, education, poor relief; and for other purposes, be and is hereby
amended as follows:
Section 8 is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 8. The issuance of tickets shall always be made for the entire ticket, divid-
ed into not less than tenths, nor more than thirtieths, and no lesser or greater division
thereof shall be permitted.
The last sentence of Section 5 is hereby further amended to read as follows:
The amount to be distributed in prizes cannot be more than 80c/o of the total value
of the tickets corresponding to each drawing.
Thus passed by the Municipal Council of St. Thomas and St. John at the extraordi-
nary meeting held January 29, 1940.
LIONEL ROBERTS                        RALPH PAIEWONSKY
Chairman.                               Secretary.
The above Ordinance is hereby sanctioned and approved.
Witness my hand and the Seal of the Government of the Virgin Islands of the United
States, at Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, this frst day of February, A. D., 1940.
ROBERT M. LOVETT
(SEAL]                 Acting Governor.

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