Sec. 209. Legal and constitutional provisions
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On the date of issuance of the Proclamation and except as otherwise provided in this title or in any agreements between the United States and the nation of Puerto Rico— all property, rights, and interests that the United States may have acquired in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico under the Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain, signed at Paris on December 10, 1898 (30 Stat. 1754), and otherwise by cession, purchase, or eminent domain, with the exception of land and other property, rights, or interests that may have been sold or otherwise legally disposed of before the date of issuance of the Proclamation, shall vest in the nation of Puerto Rico; and except as provided in section 212, all laws of the United States applicable to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico on the day before the date of issuance of the Proclamation shall no longer apply in the nation of Puerto Rico.
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Sec. 209
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