| United States - 1902 - 836 pages
...provided for in that clause of the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain which provides: "The civil rights and political status of the native...of the territory hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress," and with the understanding and reservation which should be distinctly... | |
| United States. Adjutant-General's Office - 1902 - 892 pages
...conditions stipulated in the last clause of Article XI of the late Paris treaty, and which reads as follows: "The civil rights and political status of the native...of the territory hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress." This conditional approval, it will be seen by reference to the War... | |
| United States. Adjutant-General's Office - 1902 - 868 pages
...conditions stipulated in the last clause of Article XI of the late Paris treaty, and which reads as follows: "The civil rights and political status of the native...of the territory hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress." Thw conditional approval, it will be seen by reference to the War... | |
| United States. War Department - 1902 - 842 pages
...of the treat v of peace between the United States and Spain which provides: "The civil rights aiui political status of the native inhabitants of the territory hereby ceded to the United States shall bedetermined by Congress," and with the understanding and reservation which should lie distinctly... | |
| Charles Henry Butler - Constitutional law - 1902 - 704 pages
...provisions of the treaty do not stipulate for incorporation, but on the contrary expressly provide that the ' civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded,' shall be determined by Congress. When the rights to which this careful provision... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1958 - 506 pages
...treaty provision.16 In the treaty with Spain transferring Puerto Rico to this country, it was provided: "The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress. " 19 Legally the... | |
| United States Commission on Civil Rights - Civil rights - 1959 - 696 pages
...the Treaty of Paris, Dec. 10, 1898, by which Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States (sec. 9) : "The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress." The Court concluded... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1960 - 1732 pages
...the Philippine Islands to the United States. Article of the Treaty of Paris (30 Stat. 1754) provided that— "The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the tei tories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congrès Puerto Rico and the... | |
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