Act No. 7771 — An Act amending title 1 Virgin Islands Code by designating the month of November the “David Hamilton Jackson Month” and providing for the di
ACT NO, 7% 71 BILL NO. 31-0230 THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS Regular Session 2015 An Act amending title 1 Virgin Islands Code by designating the month of November the “David Hamilton Jackson Month” and providing for the digitization of all publications of The Herald and of all historically significant documents about David Hamilton Jackson WHEREAS, on September 28, 1884, David Hamilton Jackson was born on Estate East Hill, Christiansted, St. Croix; and WHEREAS, Mr. Jackson was educated at the East Hill School, where his father was the principal and his mother was a teacher; and WHEREAS, Mr. Jackson himself became an educator and later a bookkeeper at the business of James C. Canegata; and WHEREAS, about 1910, Mr. Jackson studied law at Howard University and returned to St. Croix and engaged in the private practice of law; and WHEREAS, from in 1779, Denmark had enacted an ordinance allowing for the publication of only government subsidized newspapers; and WHEREAS, in 1915, Mr. …
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