2198 PROCLAMATION S, 1908. (2) That triangular tract or parcel of land containing seven-- tenths (.7) of an acre, lying to the northward of the western portion of the present naval hospital reservation, extending to the army reservation line; (3) All public lands of Porto Rico south of the scarp wall on the. Barrio de lh Puntilla; and _ _ \Vhereas, the government of Porto Rico, by an act of the_Leg1s- lative Assembly of said Island, entitled “An Act to authorize the_ Governor of Porto Rico to convey to the United States certain tracts of land,” approved March 14, 1907, authorized the Governor of Porto Rico, in the name of the people of Porto Rico, to execute a deed or deeds ceding and releasing to the United States the above-described · three tracts of land; and Whereas, Regis H. Post, Governor of Porto Rico, acting for the eople of Porto Rico and under the authority conferred upon him h the above-mentioned act, and Commodore Karl Rohrer, U. S. Nlavy, acting on behalf of the United States, did on April 27, 1908, execute a certain deed, No. 48, before Herminio Diaz Navarrio, Attorney and Notary Public at San Juan, Porto Rico, whereby (among other things) the above-described three tracts of land are— ceded, renounced, and transferred by the people of Porto Rico to the United States for navahpurposes; P°f{},“§§“f°“°d ‘° Now, Therefore, I, T EODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the Vol- 34. v- 1410- United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested, and in pursuance of said Act of Congress, approved March 4, 1907, do hereby cede, transfer, and convey to the government of Porto Rico to be held and disposed of for the use and benefit of the people of said Island, all of the said tract of eighty acres of public land lying along the Caguas road, city of San J uan, Porto Rico, heretofore, by Executive proclamation of January twenty-six, nineteen hundred and three, reserved for the use of the United States for naval purposes, EX- CEPT the following described tracts of land, embraced'within the · said eighty acres of public land: L¤¤¤¤ excepted- (1) The parcels upon which are located the Naval Hospital propvrty and the old wireless station, about three and seven-tenths (3.7) HCPCS; (2) The tract containing about two and six—tenths (2.6) acres connected with the Naval Hospital site by a strip of land about twenty- two (22) feet wide, and extending eastward of the ground occupied by Asilo de Ancianos Desamparados, including said connecting strip of land but not including the four—tenths (.4) of an acre, now occupied by a Catholic church and vicarage; (3) The land occupied by the caminero (road section) house, containing about three-tenths (.3) of a11 acre, adjoining the new wireless station: (4) The parcel containing about ten (10) acres extending from the new wireless station eastward along the north side of the Ca as road, between the north line of said road and the south line ofgtlhe tract belonging to the Insular Government, to the proposed site of the United States Marine Hospital, excepting therefrom a strip of land frontin sixty (60) feet on the Caguas road, and extending north along die west line of said Marine Hospital site to the lands of the Insular Government; (5) The parcel containing about two (2) acres lying south of the Caguas road and east of the tract on which the building known as Puerta de Tierra jail is located, having a front on said road of four hundred and five and sixty-one hundredths (405.61) feet, and extending south the full width to the water front as now existing or as ma hereafter be established; (36) The strip of land containing about sixty-seven hundredths (.67) of an acre, lying to the west of the old Puerta de Tierra jail,,
