P.R. Laws tit. 30, § 1743
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In the event that difficulties arise in the transfer of the said entries because of such deterioration of any of the pages of the volumes or because fragments are missing from any of the pages, the Registrar is hereby authorized to transfer the contents as far as it is legible and intelligible, and he is likewise empowered to reconstruct, at his most considered discretion and responsibility, the pertinent parts of deteriorated entries, in harmony with other entries and antecedents in the Registry having relation with the entries which are being transferred.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 4, eff. July 1, 1952.