Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of the Interior for Porto Rico to the Secretary of the Interior, U. S. A., 1905 Sir: In compliance with instructions for this Department, as shown in your letter of June 7, 1905, to the governor of Porto Rico, which reads as follows: I have the honor to invite your attention to section 24 of the act of Congress approved April 12, 1900 31 Stat. L., entitled 'an act temporarily to provide revenue and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes, ' which pro vides as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.