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 3004 August 26, 1929. Porto Rico reserva- tions. Preamble. Vol. 39, p. 954. PROCLAMATIONS, 1929. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE in the City of Washington this second day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] twenty nine, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifty-fourth. By the President: H L STIMSON Secretary oj State. H:t;RBERT HOOVER By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, by Act of Congress approved March 2, 1917 (39 Stat. 951), entitled "An Act to provide a ~Ivil government for Porto Rico and for other purposes" It is provided, "That the President may from time. to tune, in his discretion, convey to the People of Porto Rico such lands, buildings, or interests in lands or other property now owned by the United States and within the territorial limits of Porto Rico, as in his opinion are no longer needed for purposes of the United States" ; AND WHEREAS, the President, by an Executive Order of June 30, 1903, reserved for military purposes certain lands designated as the Military Reservation of San Juan, and said Military Reservation included the tract known as San Geronimo hereinafter described. AND WHEREAS, the said tract, known as San Geronimo, and hereinafter more particularly described (excepting approximately five acres thereof), is no longer needed for the purposes of the United States but is required for public use by the People of Porto Rico, ~gredso:rapTarmstroBot (talk) 18:14, 18 January 2013 (UTC)i NOW, THEREFORE, In pursuaI?-ce of the B:utho~ty veste~ in me for public use. by the Act of March 2,1917, aforesaId, all the nght, tItle, and mterest of the United States in and to the following described tract of land is hereby transferred and conveyed to the People of Porto Rico, viz: Description. Beginning at a point No. 84 on the Military Road, as shown on the Military Chart of the Military Reservation of San Juan, Porto Rico, and extending in a straight line N. 23° 29' E., through point No. 83 to the sea; thence easterly along the shore line and outside of Fort San Geronimo to the Laguna; thence southerly and outside of the shore line of Fort San Geronimo, and WfJsterly and southerly along the shore line of the Laguna ~o San Antonio Battery; thence along San Antonio Channel to a point where the line through points No. 83 and No. 84 intersects the channel; thence along the line N. 23° 29' E. to point No. 84, together with all the right, title, and interest of the United States in all shore and submerged lands lying shoreward of a line drawn through points Nos. 90,91,92 and 93, as shown on the military chart of thE:; Military Reservation of San Juan, Porto Rico; excepting and reserving, however, irom the above described tract hereby conveyed, five (5) acres, more or less, heretofore assigned to Tract reserve.d .for the uses of the Navv Department for the development of the naval naval commuDlcatlOn ~.. . 'If ' service. commulllcatlOn serVIce and for other purposes of the United States, sou~herly of and contiguous to the tract hel'etofore leased to Virgil Baker, and bounded on the north by the southerly line of the said Virgil Baker tract, being a straight line drawn from the point known as Point 85 at the southwesterly corner of the Virgil Baker tract, easterly along the southerly line of said Virgil Baker tract through