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 2482 San Geronimo Res· ervation, Porto r.ico. Preamble. Vol. 39, p. 954. Vol. 46, p. 3004. PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. SAN GERONIMO RESERVATION-PORTO RICO BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS under and by virtue of the authority contained in an act of Congress approved March 2, 1917 (39 Stat. 951), entitled" An act to provide 8. civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes, " the President by Proclamation No. 1889, dated August 26, 1929, transferred and conveyed to the people of Porto Rico a certain tract of land known as San Geronimo, more particularly described in said proclamation, excepting and reserving, however, from said tract 5 acres, more or less, which were assigned to the uses of the Navv Department for the development of the naval communication service and for other purposes of the United States, southerly of and con- tiguous to the tract heretofore 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 south- westerly corner of the Virgil Baker tract, easterly along the southerly line of said Virgil Baker tract through point 86 to the laguna; on the west by a straight line drawn southerly from said point 85 along the westerly line of the tract hereby conveyed; on the east by the shore line of the laguna; and on the south by the northerly line of a proposed road, the course and location of which road are to be fixed h.ereafter; the United States retaining title to and jurisdiction over the said last-mentioned 5-acre tract; and WHEREAS it is deemed advisable that said tract of land assigned to the uses of the Navy Department be more particularly described; Tract ~ore particu· N OW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the authority vested in me by Jarlydescnbed. the act of March 2, 1917, aforesaid, the tract of land assigned to the uses of the Navy Department is now described as follows: Beginning at a point in the northerly line of the military road, as relocated, from which, point No. 84 on the old milit~ road, as shown on the military chart of the military reservation of San Juan, P. R ., bears N. 23° 29 i E., 3.72 meters; Thence from said initial point, by metes and bounds: N. 23" 29' E., 83.10 meters, along lands of the Marine Hospital Reservation, to point No. 85 of the said military-reserva- tion chart; S. 60~ 45' E., 156.68 meters, along the southerly line of lands leased to Virgil Baker, to a point in the high-water line of Condado Bay, intermediate point No. 86 of the said military-reservation chart being 106.68 meters from the beginnmg of course; Thence along the said high-water line vf Condado Bay the following two courses: S. 20° 17' W., 54.16 meters to a point; S. 2° 18' E., 38.20 meters to a point at the end of an old fortifica- tion wall; Thence along the easterly face of said fortification wall the following two courses: S. 6° 35' E., 59.22 meters to a point; S. 5° 51' E., 93.49 meters to a point; S. 84° 06' W., 6.85 meteJ'R, crossing the said old fortification wall and old militftry road to the point of beginning of a curve with a radius of 310 meters in the northeasterly line of aforementioned military road as relocated;