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[CITE: 48USC733]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                         CHAPTER 4--PUERTO RICO
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 733. Citizens; former Spanish subjects and children; body 
        politic; name
        
    All inhabitants continuing to reside in Puerto Rico who were Spanish 
subjects on the 11th day of April 1899, and then resided in Puerto Rico, 
and their children born subsequent thereto, shall be deemed and held to 
be citizens of Puerto Rico, and as such entitled to the protection of 
the United States, except such as shall have elected to preserve their 
allegiance to the Crown of Spain on or before the 11th day of April 
1900, in accordance with the provisions of the treaty of peace between 
the United States and Spain entered into on the 11th day of April 1899; 
and they, together with such citizens of the United States as may reside 
in Puerto Rico, shall constitute a body politic under the name of the 
People of Puerto Rico, with governmental powers as hereinafter 
conferred, and with power to sue and be sued as such.

(Apr. 12, 1900, ch. 191, Sec. 7, 31 Stat. 79; May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 
Stat. 158.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Puerto Rican Federal 
Relations Act which comprises this chapter.

                         Change of Name

    ``Puerto Rico'' substituted in text for ``Porto Rico'' pursuant to 
act May 17, 1932, which is classified to section 731a of this title.


                            Cross References

    Persons born in Puerto Rico declared citizens of United States, see 
section 1402 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.
