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 80 FIFTY·SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 191. 1900. Qmmmtinésmtivus. Sec. 10. That uarantine stations shall be established at such places in Porto Rico as tlhe Su ervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hos- —reg¤¤1=m¤¤¤. pital Service of the Uiiited States shall direct, and the quarantine regulations relating to the importation of diseases from other coungies shall be under the control of the Government of the United tates. R€dQ¤1P¥·i9¤ of Sec. 11. That for the purpose of retiring the Porto Rican coins now P°rt° Emu °°mS` in circulation in Porto Rico and substituting therefor the coins of the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to redeem, on presentation in Porto Rico, all the silver coins of Porto Rico known as the peso and all other silver and copper Porto Rican coins now in circulation in Porto Rico, not including any such coins that may be imported into Porto Rico after the first day of February, nineteen hundred, at the present established rate of sixty cents in the coins of the United States for one peso of Porto Rican coin, and for all minor or subsidiary coins the same rate of exchange shall be applied. -roooioogo. The Porto Rican coins so urchased or redeemed shall be recomed at the expense of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary . of the Treasury, into such coins of the United States now authorized Login rorioor. by law as he may direct, and from and after three months after the date when this Act shall take effect no coinsshall be a legal tender, in payment of debts thereafter contracted, for any amount in Porto Rico, Appropriation. except those of the United States; and whatever sum may be required to carry out the provisions hereof, and to pay all expenses that may be Reg,,,,,m,,,,,_ incurred in connection therewith, is hereby appropriated, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to establish such regulations and employ such a encies as mayibe necessary to accomplish the P,,,,,,,,,,_ purposes hereof: Pro/vi§c0l, fwwevcr, hat all debts owing on the date w§§¤¤;¤gb{;¢b¤S> i¤ when this Act shall take effect shall be payable in the coins of Porto p YRico now in circulation, or in the coins of the United States at the rate of exchange above named. _ · ,_ nirpoooos payable Sec. 12. That all expenses that may be incurred on account of the {,§’,§‘;s?°"° mm""' government of Porto Rico for salaries of officials and the conduct of their offices and departments, and all expenses and obligations contracted for the internal improvement or development of the island, not, however, including defenses, barracks, harbors, light-houses, buoys, and other works undertaken by the United States, shall be paid by the treasurer of Porto Rico out of the revenues in his custody. rroporrgio bridges, Sec. 13. That all §>roperty which may have been acquired in Porto §§Qf“‘g§‘u,’f€§"§$,’§‘§; Rico by the United tates under the cession of Spain in said treaty of ¢r¤3¢y¤f1mg<;nrg;€%<} peace in any public bridges, road houses, water powers, highways, lydrtbrlgizo, oro. unnavigable streams, and the beds thereof, subterranean waters, mines, or minerals under the surface of private lands, and all property which at the time of the cession belonged, under the laws of Spain then in force, to the various harbor-works boards of Porto Rico. and all the harbor shores, docks, slips, and reclaimed lands, but not includin harbor areas or navigable waters, is hereby placed under the contrdl of the government established by this Act to be administered for the benefit of the people of Porto Rico; and the legislative assembly hereby created shall have authority, subject to the limitations imposed upon all its acts, to legislate with respect to all such matters as it may deem advisable. roriorrii iowa appli- Sec. 14. That the statutory laws of the United States not locally °°b‘°· ina plicable, except as hereinbefore or hereinafter otherwise provided, shall have the same force and effect in Porto Rico as in the United States, except the internal-revenue laws, which, in view of the provisions of section three, shall not have force and effect in Porto Rico. Legislature m¤yr¢— Sec. 15. That the legislative authority hereinafter provided shall iiir°riori€i$`ir}£Z'f °°D` have power by due enactment to amend, alter, modify, or repeal any law or ordinance, civil or orioiioai, continued in force by this Act, as it may from time to time see fit.