Fill US Virgin Islands early history gap and explain first-offender relief

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+A [US Virgin Islands early-history pass](research/history-usvi-early-gap-2026-10-26.md)
+adds nine entries and two articles, reducing the 1937–2014 gap to a largest interval
+of 19 years. It covers the 1951 tax-administration delegation, cannabis-warrant
+search limits, the 1970 prison law, 1971 replacement drug law, 1990 licence penalties
+and the 2011/2012 first-offender licence dispute, including the Supreme Court's
+reversal. Current scores and existing historical vectors are preserved; earlier
+territorial legislation and original commencement records remain research targets.

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+# US Virgin Islands: the 1937–2014 gap — 26 October 2026
+
+Nine new entries and two articles extend the period between the existing 1937 tax
+restriction and the 2014 reforms. The largest interval between dated entries falls
+from 77 years to 19 years (1971–1990). The territory now has 23 entries.
+
+## Guidance and scope
+
+Read README, DATA-MAINTENANCE (history schema, scoring, workflow, source rules and
+article guidance), WRITING, BOOKS, the existing 24 October USVI research memo,
+existing profile and timeline. No applicable AGENTS file was found. Research is
+limited to the territory's missing earlier history. Current profile scores, status,
+and every existing historical score vector are preserved.
+
+## Records actually read
+
+- **Truman, Executive Order 10250, 5 June 1951**, original order reproduced by the
+  American Presidency Project. Read section 1(f), together with its delegation
+  introduction. It gives Interior the President's existing territorial registration
+  and tax powers, to be exercised in consultation with Treasury. This is an
+  administrative delegation, not the creation of a new tax or possession ban.
+  https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-10250-providing-for-the-performance-certain-functions-the-president-the
+- **Government v. Rijos, 6 June 1968, 6 V.I. 475**, judicial opinion reproduced by
+  Legal Calculators. Read pp. 479–489 and final order, especially pp. 483–489.
+  The warrant sought cannabis following a named informant's purchases, but the
+  inventory and prosecution concerned heroin and other items. The judge upheld
+  probable cause for the warrant, suppressed evidence because of the unannounced
+  passkey entry and unlawful personal search, and separately rejected the challenge
+  to prosecution by information. No cannabis acquittal is inferred.
+  https://calculators.law/caselaw/decisions/Zb18xEPYW3gd/government-of-the-virgin-islands-v-rijos
+- **McIntosh v. People, 29 November 2012, 57 V.I. 669**, judicial opinion reproduced
+  by OpenJurist. Read facts, pp. 684–692, conclusion and notes on the schedules.
+  The court expressly dates the prison law to 13 February 1970 and commencement
+  of the replacement drug law to 23 March 1971. Cannabis was non-narcotic within
+  the latter but expressly included in the former's own definition. Three years
+  for introducing cannabis into prison was upheld; the case was remanded to stay
+  or dismiss one conviction because two convictions punished the same act. The
+  event is not a release or an acquittal. Its Schedule I discussion reports the
+  evidence before that court, not a new independent audit of all ministerial orders.
+  https://openjurist.org/57/vi/669/mcintosh-v-people
+- **Bigby v. Government, 20 December 2000, 125 F. Supp. 2d 709**, judicial opinion
+  reproduced by Justia. Read pp. 710–716, conclusion and notes. Agreement plus an
+  overt act had to be alleged; conviction was vacated and a new trial ordered.
+  The omitted charge element is distinct from a finding that no act occurred.
+  https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/125/709/2424929/
+- **People v. Rohn, 20 April 2011**, official Superior Court PDF, SX-03-CR-113.
+  Read relevant facts and statutory discussion, printed pp. 2–10, 12–14, 16–20.
+  It gives the 1971 purpose, possession/distribution maxima, first-offender
+  procedure, 1990 licence legislation, and its holding that revocation applied
+  even to first-offender probation. This interpretation was **reversed**; both
+  public entries and source locators state that subsequent outcome.
+  https://cdnsm5-hosted.civiclive.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_12810747/File/Opinions/Archive/2011_04_26_16_33_23.pdf
+- **Rohn v. People, 21 November 2012**, official Supreme Court PDF, S. Ct. Crim.
+  No. 2011-0087, all ten pages. Header distinguishes consideration on 9 October
+  from filing on 21 November. The court reversed both the April interpretation
+  and the licence portion of the December 2011 order. Rohn had received six
+  months' probation without adjudication and the underlying case was dismissed
+  after completion. The first-offender provision had been enacted in 1971 and
+  the licence provision in 1990. Neither a plea nor probation is silently called
+  a conviction. No blanket repeal of licence penalties is claimed.
+  https://cdnsm5-hosted.civiclive.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_12810860/File/Opinions/Published/2012/File80.pdf
+- **20 V.I.C. § 378, historical 2019 text**, statutory reproduction at Justia.
+  Read (a)–(d). Confirms two-year possession and five-year other-drug penalties,
+  and the separate exception for the later civil-possession regime. The new
+  article uses this for the statute's structure, with the courts supplying its
+  historical interpretation and application.
+  https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-20/part-ii/chapter-35/378/
+
+Additional leads read but not used as primary public citations: USVI Public Records
+code reproductions (titles 19 and 20), Eisenhower's 1957 update to the delegation,
+and the current statutory reproduction of section 607. These consolidated texts
+contain later amendments and cannot alone prove every original 1971 penalty.
+Morton's 1978 case appeared in search results but its full text returned 403, so
+it is not added as a checked event. Direct local downloads of several opinions
+also returned 403; web extraction supplied the judicial text actually read.
+PDF screenshot retrieval failed for both official Rohn PDFs; the dates and legal
+history were checked in extracted headers and operative text, with cross-checks
+between the two courts. No visual inspection is claimed.
+
+## Scoring and follow-up
+
+No new whole-segment change is manufactured from the number of entries. The 1951
+administrative delegation, case-specific suppression, charging requirements and
+interpretations leave the ordinary adult prohibition categories unchanged.
+The 1970 offence concerns prison contraband. The 1990 penalty and 2012 relief
+concern driving privileges; other defendants still faced criminal possession
+penalties. These directional entries have explicit unscored explanations.
+
+The 1971 replacement has an explicit provisional unscored explanation: recover
+the preceding territorial drug chapter and original 1971 Act before assigning a
+supported change across the six dimensions. First-offender relief is real, but
+its existence does not by itself establish routine implementation or a newly
+changed whole enforcement band. Original 1990 Act 5649 and its commencement
+remain retrieval targets; the new entry records the verified adoption year.
+The 1970 entry records adoption as described by the Supreme Court, without
+claiming that a separate commencement notice was examined.
+
+The inherited 1937 aggregate score step has not been re-certified by this pass.
+A zero-flag chain check proves structural continuity, not that every earlier
+segment was already at its later level. Original territorial restrictions,
+1937 administration, pre-1971 law, the 1980s and the later retail/medical
+implementation questions in the 24 October memo remain open.
+
+## Verification
+
+Both articles use all their sources inline, have four sections and 383/414 words,
+and link to real history/profile destinations. The isolated candidate contains
+exactly the nine new entries; every HEAD history object and score vector is
+preserved. A test fixture combines HEAD with this batch, excluding other chats'
+unfinished article and history edits: **history tests 40/40 pass**. The initial
+live run found one unrelated article citation still being edited; its output
+is retained rather than reported as a clean run. **Quick-answer tests 27/27 pass**.
+The production build passed with **4,268 pages**. Chain check: zero flags;
+triage: three scored steps, zero open territorial entries.
+
+A background browser verified the country History tab shows all 23 entries,
+including the nine additions, and the 2012 article renders the reversal date,
+headings, inline citations and references. Build detail pages and history CSV
+are checked separately. Current score remains 33. Research downloads, candidate,
+test fixture and logs live under ignored `tmp/history-usvi-early-2026-10-26/`.
+The commit excludes unrelated changes and source-archive staging.