P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 951
It shall be the duty of the Director to compile each year a chronicle of political, scientific, judicial, literary, religious, legislative, social and economical events worthy of record and of public importance occurring in Puerto Rico during each year. The manuscript containing said historical record shall be the property of the Commonwealth and be deposited in the Carnegie Library, and shall be prepared in such form that printed copies of the same may be published from time to time, whenever provision may have been made by the Legislative Assembly for such publication, such printed copies to be either distributed free of charge, or sold, as the Department of Education shall deem advisable, and in case of sale, the proceeds thereof shall be deposited in the Treasury of Puerto Rico.
History —Mar. 13, 1913, No. 76, p. 129, § 2.