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48 U.S.C. § 736 — Puerto Rican law modified
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So much of the law which was in force at the time of cession, April 11th, 1899, forbidding the marriage of priests, ministers, or followers of any faith because of vows they may have taken, being paragraph 4, article 83, chapter 3, civil code, and which was continued by the order of the secretary of justice of Puerto Rico, dated March 17, 1899, and promulgated by Major General Guy V. Henry, United States Volunteers, is repealed and annulled, and all persons lawfully married in Puerto Rico shall have all the rights and remedies conferred by law upon parties to either civil or religious marriages. Paragraph 1, article 105, section 4, divorce, civil code, and paragraph 2, section 19, of the order of the minister of justice of Puerto Rico, dated March 17, 1899, and promulgated by Major General Guy V. Henry, United States Volunteers, are so amended as to read: “Adultery on the part of either the husband or the wife.”
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So much of the law which was in force at the time of cession, April 11th, 1899, forbidding the marriage of priests, ministers, or followers of any faith because of vows they may have taken, being paragraph 4, article 83, chapter 3, civil code, and which was continued by the order of the secretary of justice of Puerto Rico, dated March 17, 1899, and promulgated by Major General Guy V. Henry, United States Volunteers, is repealed and annulled, and all persons lawfully married in Puerto Rico shall have all the rights and remedies conferred by law upon parties to either civil or religious marriages. Paragraph 1, article 105, section 4, divorce, civil code, and paragraph 2, section 19, of the order of the minister of justice of Puerto Rico, dated March 17, 1899, and promulgated by Major General Guy V. Henry, United States Volunteers, are so amended as to read: “Adultery on the part of either the husband or the wife.”
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From and after May 17, 1932, the island designated “Porto Rico” in the Act entitled “An Act to provide a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes,” approved March 2, 1917, as amended, shall be known and designated as “Puerto Rico.” All laws, regulations, and public documents and records of the United States in which such island is designated or referred to under the name of “Porto Rico” shall be held to refer to such island under and by the name of “Puerto Rico.”
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TITLE 48—TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
§ 737
Because Puerto Rico’s degree of constitutional self-
government, population, and size set it apart from
other areas also subject to Federal jurisdiction under
Article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the Constitution, I
hereby direct all Federal departments, agencies, and of-
ficials, to the extent consistent with the Constitution
and the laws of the United States, henceforward to
treat Puerto Rico administratively as if it were a
State, except insofar as doing so with respect to an ex-
isting Federal program or activity would increase or
decrease Federal receipts or expenditures, or would se-
riously disrupt the operation of such program or activ-
ity. With respect to a Federal program or activity for
which no fiscal baseline has been established, this
memorandum shall not be construed to require that
such program or activity be conducted in a way that
increases or decreases Federal receipts or expenditures
relative to the level that would obtain if Puerto Rico
were treated other than as a State.
If any matters arise involving the fundamentals of
Puerto Rico’s status, they shall be referred to the Of-
fice of the President.
This guidance shall remain in effect until Federal
legislation is enacted altering the current status of
Puerto Rico in accordance with the freely expressed
wishes of the people of Puerto Rico.
The memorandum for the heads of executive depart-
ments and agencies on this subject, issued July 25, 1961
[26 F.R. 6695], is hereby rescinded.
This memorandum shall be published in the Federal
Register.
GEORGE BUSH.
§ 734a. Extension of industrial alcohol and inter-
nal revenue laws to Puerto Rico
Title III of the National Prohibition Act, as
amended, and all provisions of the in
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