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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 747. Public property transferred; "control" defined
All property which may have been acquired in Puerto Rico by the
United States under the cession of Spain in the treaty of peace
entered into on the 10th day of December 1898, in any public
bridges, road houses, water powers, highways, unnavigable streams
and the beds thereof, subterranean waters, mines or minerals under
the surface of private lands, 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 Puerto Rico, all the harbor shores,
docks, slips, reclaimed lands, and all public lands and buildings
not reserved by the United States for public purposes prior to
March 2, 1917, is placed under the control of the government of
Puerto Rico, to be administered for the benefit of the people of
Puerto Rico; and the Legislature of Puerto Rico shall have
authority, subject to the limitations imposed upon all its acts, to
legislate with respect to all matters, as it may deem advisable.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, as used in this section
"control" includes all right, title, and interest in and to and
jurisdiction and authority over the aforesaid property and includes
proprietary rights of ownership, and the rights of management,
administration, leasing, use, and development of such property.
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