Chapter 1383. Authorizing the President to reserve public lands and buildings in the island of Porto Rico for public uses, and granting other public lands and buildings to the government of Porto Rico, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 1383.— An Act Authorizing the President to reserve public lands and buildings in the island of Porto Rico for public uses, and granting other public lands and buildings to the government of Porto Rico, and for other purposes. July 1, 1902. [[Public, No. 249](/us/pl/57/249).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the President be, andPorto Rico.Reservation of public lands and buildings for public purposes etc. he is hereby, authorized to make, within one year after the approval of this Act, such reservation of public lands and buildings belonging to the United States in the island of Porto Rico, for military, naval, light-house, marine-hospital, post-offices, custom-houses, United States courts, and other public purposes, as he may deem necessary, and all the public lands and buildings, not including harbor areas and navigableOther lands, etc., granted to government of Porto Rico. streams and bodies of water and the submerged lands underlying the same, owned by the United States in said island and not so reserved be, and the same are hereby, granted to the government of Porto Rico, to be hold or disposed of for the use and benefit of the people of said island: *Provided,* That said grant is upon the express condition that *Provisos*.Release of reserved lands, etc.the government of Porto Rico, by proper authority, release to the United States any interest or claim it may have in or upon the lands or buildings reserved by the President under the provisions of this 732Legal rights, etc,, not affected.Act: *And provided further,* That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to affect any legal or equitable rights acquired by the government of Porto Rico or by any other party, under any contract, lease, or license made by the United States authorities prior to the first day of May, nineteen hundred.
Sec. 2. Appropriation for law library. That the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Treasury of the United States not other-wise appropriated, to be expended by the clerk of the district court of the United States for Porto Rico, under the supervision and subject to the approval of the presiding judge of said court, in the purchase of a law library for the use of said court. Sec. 3. Resident commissioner.Traveling expenses.Vol. 31, p. 86.
That the resident commissioner from Porto Rico to the United States, provided for by section thirty-nine of the Act of April twelfth, nineteen hundred, entitled “An Act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes.” shall be entitled, in addition to his salary as now fixed by law, to his actual expenses in traveling to and from Porto Rico once annually, and his term of office shall commence on the fourth day of Term of office extended.March next succeeding the date of his election: and the term of office of the present incumbent is hereby extended to the third day of March, nineteen hundred and three.
Approved, July 1, 1902.