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[CITE: 48USC732]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                         CHAPTER 4--PUERTO RICO
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 732. Repealed. July 3, 1950, ch. 446, Sec. 5(2), 64 Stat. 
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    Section, acts Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, Sec. 4, 39 Stat. 953; May 17, 
1932, ch. 190, 47 Stat. 158, designated San Juan as the capital of 
Puerto Rico. Section 6 of act Apr. 12, 1900, ch. 191, 31 Stat. 79, 
formerly cited as a credit to this section, was not repealed by act July 
3, 1950.


                        Effective Date of Repeal

    Section 5 of act July 3, 1950, provided that the repeal of this 
section and sections 735, 750, 753, 754, 771-793, 793b, 796-799, 811-
820, 822, 823, 824-844, 861, and 873 of this title and the amendment of 
sections 737 and 752 of this title were to be effective at such time as 
the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico became effective. 
Under section 731d of this title, that Constitution, upon approval by 
the Congress of the United States, ``shall become effective in 
accordance with its terms''. Congress, by act July 3, 1952, ch. 567, 66 
Stat. 327, approved, with certain conditions, that Constitution; the 
approving act further provided that the Constitution, as so approved, 
``shall become effective when the Constitutional Convention of Puerto 
Rico shall have declared in a formal resolution its acceptance in the 
name of Puerto Rico of the conditions of approval herein contained, and 
when the Governor of Puerto Rico, being duly notified by the proper 
officials of the Constitutional Convention of Puerto Rico that such 
resolution of acceptance has been formally adopted, shall issue a 
proclamation to that effect''. The Constitution was proclaimed by the 
Governor of Puerto Rico on July 25, 1952, and became effective on that 
date.
