Estado de el “Old Spanish Archive” en 1920

Report of the Executive Secretary of Porto Rico. Report of the Governor of Porto Rico. 1920. pp. 81-82.

Old Spanish Archives

The act to create the Historical Archive of Porto Rico, approved on June 20, 1919, and to which I referred in my last annual report, became effective 90 days after its approval-that is, on the 18th day of September of the same year-and on the 5th day of November the governor did appoint the director of the new institution, who immediately assumed the duties of his office to be carried out under the eupenision and direction of the governor.

Consequently all books, documents, and other papers pertaining to the times of the Spanish regime of this Island, which had been under the custody of this office until such time as the legislature might determine the final and permanent disposition thereof, were legally placed in the custody of the directoin of the Historial Archive, and the undersigned therefore relieved of any further duty in reference to the keeping classification, and preservation of these old records.