Done at the City of Washington, this 26th day of June. in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine [SEAL.] hundred and three, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty seventh. By the President: JOHN HAY THEODORE ROOSEVELT Secretary of State. ORDER REVOKING RESERVATION OF THE PRESIDIO. It is hereby ordered that so much of the order or proclamation by me signed on June 26, 1903, reserving certain lands in the Island of Porto Rico for naval uses as set apart and reserved that certain building and tract of land known as The Presidio or penitentiary at San Juan, be and the same is hereby modified, and the said tract of land together with the buildings thereon are hereby ordered withdrawn from the operation of the said above referred to proclamation or order, and from any and all effect thereof. THEODORE ROOSEVELT WHITE HOUSE, June 30, 1903. Supra. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, by "An Act Authorizing the President to reserve public lands and buildings in the island of Porto Rico for public uses, and granting other public lands and buildings to the government of Porto Rico, and for other purposes," approved July 1, 1902, the President is authorized to make, within one year after the approval of said act such reservation of public lands and buildings belonging to the United States in the Island of Porto Rico for military, naval, light-house, marine hospital, post offices, custom houses, United States Courts and other public uses as he may deem necessary, all public lands and buildings, not including harbor areas, navigable streams and bodies of water and the submerged land underlying the same, owned by the United States in said Island and not so reserved, being granted to the government of Porto Rico upon the condition that such government by proper authority, release to the United States any interest or claim they may have in or upon the lands or buildings reserved under the provisions of said act; and Whereas, the government of Porto Rico, by an act of the Legislative Assembly of said Island entitled "An Act Authorizing the Governor of Porto Rico to convey certain lands to the United States for naval, military and other public purposes," approved February 16, 1903, has authorized the governor of Porto Rico to release any interest or claim that the people of said Island “ now have or may hereafter acquire in and upon any lands or buildings No. 5. 33 Stats. L., pt. 2, p. 2315. Preamble. Public lands in Porto Rico public uses. belonging to the United States," for public uses under and by virtue of the Power vested in the President under the terms of the act of the Congress above cited; Now, Therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of reserved for the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested, and in pursuance of said Act of the Congress, approved July 1, 1902, do hereby declare, proclaim and make known that the following described lands be, and the same are hereby, reserved. Public building site. Description. For a public building site in the city of San Juan the following parcel of land. That certain tract or piece lying in a northerly direction from block number fifty five of said city and southerly and westerly from block number ninety, the said tract being now vacant and containing an approximate area of one thousand by two hundred feet, as appears by a map of San Juan, compiled in the office of the Bureau of Public Works, by A. Morales, in Marine hos pital. Custom houses. Light-houses, etc. 1901. For the use of the Marine hospital service, a parcel of land at San Juan lying next west of the north and south line of the eastern boundary line of the military reservation west of the first line of defense, near San Antonio bridge, running three hundred feet front east and west along the so called military road and extending toward the north to the old stone ditch defense. For Custom House purposes: The lots and buildings used and occupied as custom houses at Ponce, Mayaguez and Humacao and the right until otherwise ordered to the use of the lots and buildings within the Puntilla point at San Juan now used and occupied by the Custom authorities for custom house purposes in said city. For light house and buoy purposes at San Juan: Beginning at a point S. 45 deg. E., 8 ft. from corner of parapet; thence S. 45 deg. E., 7.9 ft.; thence S. 7.9 ft.; thence S. 5 deg. E., 4.3 ft.; thence W., 10 ft., thence N. 45 deg. W. 108 ft.; thence N. 7 ft.; thence E. 5 ft.; thence N. 3 ft.; thence N. 45 deg. E., 7.9 ft.; thence E. 7.9 to point of beginning. Contains 400 sq. ft. The San Juan Bastion. Beginning at S. E. cor. of bastion, thence N. 12 deg. 45 W., 36.5 ft.; thence along curb line S. 87 deg: 45 W., 104.5 ft.; thence S. 5 deg. 15 W., 39.5 ft.; thence S. 68 deg., E., 63.2 ft.; thence N. 61 deg. E., 63 ft., to point of beginning. Contai 0.111 acre. Land Adjacent to San Juan Bastion. Beginning at the N. E. corner of San Justo Bastion, thence North 78 deg., 30 East, 86.4 feet; thence South 16 deg., East 41.7 ft.; thence South 39 deg., 45 West, 67.6 feet; thence South 88 deg. West, 91.6 feet; thence North 18 feet; thence North 61 deg. East, 63 feet; thence North 12 deg.. 45 West, 32.5 feet; to point of beginning. Contains 0.168 acre. For Lamp Shop and Buoy Depot: Beginning at a point in the centre of proposed street; South 75 deg., 56 East, 1356 feet from N. E. corner of Military Ovens and South 4 deg. 55 East, 505 feet from S. W. corner of Industrial School; thence North 4 deg. 37 East, 438 feet; thence North 83 deg., 20 West, 100 feet; thence South 4 deg. 37 West, 993 feet; thence South 85 deg., 23 East 100 feet; thence North 4 deg. 37 East, 555 feet to point of beginning. Contains 2.28 acres. 6 6 46 10 10 Lamp shops, etc. Also for light house purposes at Cape San Juan, an Light-houses. area of 15 acres; also at Point Mulas an area of ground of 21 acres; also at Point Ferro an area of 15 acres; also at Point Tuna an area of 44 acres; also at Point Figuras an area of 1 acre; also at Muertos Island an area of 7 acres; also at Guanica an area of 1786 acres; also at Cape Rojo an area of 85% acres; also at Point Jiguero an area of 24 acres; also at Point Borinquen an area of 10 acres; also at Arecibo an area of 7 acres, all as indicated on maps and plats prepared by the Light House Bureau of the Third Light House District of Porto Rico, which said maps and plats showing the ares reserved have been this day by me signed and ordered filed in the Department of State; Also for Light House purposes at Mona Island a tract of land at and about the present light house station consisting of the area which lies East of a North and South line 500 ft. to the westward of the centre of the present light house in said Island; also that Island lying south of Ponce known as Cardona Island. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this 30th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine [SEAL.] hundred and three, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh. By the President: THEODORE ROOSEVELT FRANCIS B LOOMIS Acting Secretary of State No. 8. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Oct. 20, 1903. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, by the resolution of the Senate of March 19, 1903, the approval by Congress of the reciprocal Commercial Convention between the United States and the a Reference to the maps and charts mentioned would seem to indicate that this is an error in copying and that the word should areas." be 66 33 Stats. L., pt. 2, p. 2319. Preamble. session of Congress. Republic of Cuba, signed at Havana on December 11, 1902, is necessary before the said Convention shall take effect; And Whereas, it is important to the public interests of the United States that the said Convention shall become operative as early as may be; Convening ex- Now, Therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of traordinary the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the convening of both Houses of the Congress of the United States at their respective Chambers in the city of Washington on the 9th day of November next, at 12 o'clock noon, to the end that they may consider and determine whether the approval of the Congress shall be given to the said Convention. All persons entitled to act as members of the 58th Congress are required to take notice of this proclamation. Given under my hand and the Seal of the United States at Washington the 20th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] three and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth. THEODORE ROOSEVELT By the President: JOHN HAY Secretary of State. No. 12. Nov. 17, 1903. Preamble. 1110. 33 Stats. L., pt. 2, p. 2324. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March 3, 1891, entitled "An act to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights", that said act "shall only apply to a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as its own citizens; or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States of America may, at its pleasure, become a party to such agreement"; AND WHEREAS it is also provided by said section that "the existence of either of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the purposes of this act may require "; AND WHEREAS satisfactory official assurances have been given that in Cuba the law permits to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to the citizens of Cuba: benefits ex NOW, THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Pres- Copyright ident of the United States of America, do declare and tended to citiproclaim that the first of the conditions specified in sec- zens of Cuba. tion 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, now exists and is fulfilled in respect to the citizens of Cuba. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 17th day of November one thousand nine hundred and three [SEAL.] and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth. By the President: JOHN HAY THEODORE ROOSEVELT Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 15. A PROCLAMATION. Dec. 28, 1903. 33 Stats. L., pt. 2, p. 2329. Whereas, the maintenance of light-houses and other Preamble. aids to navigation in the Territory of Hawaii is necessary for the safe navigation of the waters thereof by the vessels of the Navy and of the merchant marine of the United States, and for the promotion of its commercial interests, Light-house uses, etc., of States. Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of Hawaii. the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested, establishment and pursuant to Section 91 of the Act of April 30, 1900, of, taken for entitled An Act to provide a government for the Terri- the United tory of Hawaii, do hereby declare and proclaim that all the public property of the former government of the Republic of Hawaii ceded heretofore to the United States, consisting of light-houses and the public lands adjacent thereto and used in connection therewith, to the extent of five acres, or thereabout, adjacent to each light-house, when practicable to obtain so much, the exact location of said land and its metes and bounds to be hereafter determined and defined by the Light-House Board, light-vessels, light-house tenders, beacons, buoys, sea-marks and their appendages, and all apparatus, supplies and materials of all kinds provided therefor, and all the archives, books, documents, drawings, models, returns, and all other things appertaining to any light-house establishment maintained by the said government of the former Republic of Hawaii, be and hereby are taken for the uses and purposes of the United States, and the Department Department of of Commerce and Labor, through the Light-House Board, Labor. 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