...relinquished to the justice and generosity of the sovereign people of the United States. Hence the provision: The civil rights and political status of the native...ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress. course the individual inhabitants had elected to pursue. Hence the provisions of Article...

...It will be observed that by the second paragraph of Article IX of the treaty of Paris, which reads: The civil rights and political status of the native...United States shall be determined by the Congress. a distinction is made between Spanish subjects and native inhabitants of the territories ceded by Spain....

...the first clause of Article 18 and the first clause of Article 22. The Treaty of Paris provides that "the civil rights and political status of the native...United States shall be determined by the Congress." (i Official Gazette So.) Article 4 of the Act of Congress, July i, 1902, declares who are citizens...

...to have renounced it and to have adopted the nationality of the territory in which they may reside. The civil rights and political status of the native...United States shall be determined by the Congress. ARTICLE x The inhabitants of the territories over which Spain relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty...

...Baltimore 19. 10 Soldiers in the Philippines 17. 20 INSULAR GOVERNMENT. The treaty of Paris provides : The civil rights and political status of the native...United States shall be determined by the Congress. I assume, for I do not think that it can be successfully disputed, that all acquisition of territory...

...to have renounced it and to have adopted the nationality of the territory in which they may reside. "The civil rights and political status of the native...United States shall be determined by the Congress." By the constitution of the Spanish monarchy, and the Spanish Civil Code, in force in Porto Rico when...

...allegiance before a court of record within a certain time. It was further declared in the same Treaty that the ' civil rights and political status of the native...United States shall be determined by the Congress ' of the United States. These treaty provisions have been interpreted as effecting a transition nolens...

...Paris, December 10, 1898, and proclaimed April 11, 1899.13 Article IX of that treaty provides, in part : The civil rights and political status of the native...United States shall be determined by the Congress. It has been uniformly held that the dependencies, acquired by cession as the result of our War with...

...Paris, December 10, 1898, and proclaimed April 11, 1899.13 Article IX of that treaty provides, in part : The civil rights and political status of the native...Territories hereby ceded to the United States shall he determined by the Congress. It has been uniformly held that the dependencies, acquired by cession,...

...territory in which they may reside. With respect to civil and political rights this same section declared: The civil rights and political status of the native...United States shall be determined by the Congress. Congress took steps to determine the political status of the native inhabitants and to establish civil...