Excerpt from Translation of the Provincial and Municipal Laws of Puerto Rico: Division of Customs and Insular Affairs, War Department, August, 1899 Article 1. The territory of the island of Puerto Rico and of the adja cent ones constitutes a province of the Spanish nation, and the city of San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico is the capital thereof. For the effects of articles 82 and 84, and according to article 89 of the constitution, it is divided into two regions, which shall be called San Juan and Ponce, in each of which there sh all reside a delegate of the governor-general. 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.