Laws Ordinances Decrees And Military Orders Having The Force Of Law Effective In Porto Rico May 1 1900

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Excerpt from Laws, Ordinances, Decrees, and Military Orders Having the Force of Law, Effective in Porto Rico, May 1, 1900, Vol. 2: Letter From the Secretary of War Transmitting, in the Response to the Inquiry of the House of Representatives, Laws and Ordinances of and Military Orders and Decrees Affecting Porto Rico; Pages 623-1387 General regulations for the execution of the mortgage law for Cuba, Porto Rico. And the Philippine Islands (1898) - Continued. Title XI. - Responsibility of registers title XII - Fees of r 'stets title XML - Release om existing incumbrances title XIV. - Unrecorded documents and entries of ssion title XV. - Effects Of records contained in the old ks and substitution of those rendered useless by fire or other accidents Provisional articles. 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.

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