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This institution has for its object, and it shall be its duty, to keep, arrange, classify and catalog all documents belonging to the former Government and office of the Captain General of Puerto Rico and other governmental organizations which in 1898, by reason of the change of sovereignty, were reorganized or abolished, as well as all documents of a historical and political nature of the abolished Audiencia Territorial Court, and such other documents of like nature appertaining to the time of the Spanish regime, as may be found in the municipalities of the Commonwealth or in any other public archives, or which, being in the hands of private persons, may be acquired by the Government, either by donation or with funds of the Commonwealth Treasury. History —June 20, 1919, No. 64, p. 398, § 2, eff. 90 days after June 20, 1919.