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On the recordApril 19, 1931
I do hereby further direct that all items above enumerated under Class Two be, and the same are hereby, transferred temporarily to the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior for use in the administration of the government of the Virgin Islands.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Executive Order 5602—Placing Certain Government Property in the Virgin Islands Under the Control and Jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior

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