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The United States or any officer or agent thereof or any contractor in charge on behalf of the United States of the dredging of the harbor of San Juan is hereby authorized at any time hereafter and until other provision shall have been made by the Legislative Assembly to use any island in the harbor of San Juan belonging to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as a place of deposit for the dredgings and soil removed from said harbor or any portion of the shores of said harbor or any portion of the lands adjacent thereto belonging to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico which in the judgment of the Governor, may properly be used as such place of deposit; and in carrying out any such plan of improvement of said harbor the United States or any such officer, agent or contractor is hereby authorized to alter the boundary lines of any portion of the shores of said harbor or of any such island or to diminish or increase the area of any such island as may be required by such plans; Provided, That all lands reclaimed by making any such deposit of dredgings and soil from the harbor shall belong to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. History —Feb. 16, 1903, p. 110, § 3.