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 2496 PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. WHEREAS such land is desired by the municipality of San Juan, Porto Rico, for the purpose of connecting two thoroughfares, namely, Salvador Brau Boulevard and Ponce de Le6n Avenue, within the limits of said municipality, and may be advantageously used by the people of Porto Rico; N ow, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested, do hereby proclaim and make known that the following-described land, to be used for highway purposes only, and subject to the conditions hereinafter mentioned, is hereby transferred and conveyed to the people of Porto Rico: Portion of United States Weather Bureau, Department of Agri- culture reservation: DI'SCTiptioll 01 ron- Begmmn- . g at the point of intersection of the northerly line of veyed area. Ponce de Le6n Avenue and the westerly line of Department of Condltious. Vol. oM. p. 21121. Agriculture Weather Bureau reservation in Puerto. de Tierra, San Juan, Territory of Porto Rico, thence 1. Bearing N. 21 0 9' E., along the westerly line of the Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau reservation, a distance of 123.99 meters to the point of intersection of the southerly line of Sal- vador Brau Boulevard and the westerly line of the "Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau reservation; thence 2. Bearing S. 350 47' E., a distance of 12.40 meters to a point; thence 3. Bearing S. 21 0 9' W., a distance of 120.08 meters to a point of intersection with the northerly line of Ponce de Le6n Avenue; thence 4. Bearing N. 68 0 42.9' W., along the northerly line of Ponce de Le6n Avenue, a distance of 12.00 meters, to the point of beginning, containing 1,468.94 square meters. The transfer of the above-described lands is subject to the following conditions : (1) That the provisions of a proclamation by the President of the United States, done at the City of Washington on the 24th day of August, 1926, shall (as far as concerns the reservation of the United States Weather Bureau, Department of Agriculture, at San Juan) be complied with prior to the proposed transfer of land and the construc- tion oj a thoroughfare thereon, particularly, that the people of Porto Rico shall, without expense to the United States, erect parallel to and distant 1 meter southerly from the northerly lines of the lands de- scribed in the proclamation, a substantial concrete retaining wall, the top of which shall be level with the adjoining land of the United States, and shall construct thereon an open cement or iron fence to the ad- ditional height of 4 feet, the fence to have two large gaies and one small gate along San Juan Military Reservation and one large and two small gates along the Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau reservation, to conform to such type of fence and to be placed in such locations as may be designated, respectively, by the Commanding Officer, San Juan Military Reservation, and the official in charge of the Weather Bureau station at San Juan; the people of Porto Rico also shall construct, without expense to the United States, a sidewalk along the southerly side of said retaining wall; (2) That the construction of the thoroughfare between Ponce de Le6n Avenue and Salvador Brau Boulevard, along the 12-meter strip of land to be transferred from the Weather Bureau reservation, is contingent upon the construction, prior to the opening of such thorough- fare to the public, of a substantial concrete retaIning wall, not less than