Executive Order 218

June 29, 1903.⁠

In pursuance of the authority vested in me by the Act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, entitled "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," I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby reserve for the uses of the United States Courts, District Attorney, and Marshal, the following property In the Island of Porto Rico:

In San Juan, so much of the upper floor of No. 3 as lies east of a line drawn 25 feet west of and parallel to the western wall of the present court room, and No. 5 Fortaleza Street except so much of No. 5 as Is now occupied by the Weather Bureau officials.

In Ponce, the building occupied by the Insular Telegraph and Board of Public Works, on Atocha Street near the market, together with the ground about it, said ground supposed to be of three-fourths of an acre in extent.

In Mayaguez, the second floor of the custom house.

Theodore Roosevelt.⁠