...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." || The President of the Spanish Commission objected to this article, as it was read, on various grounds;...

...It will be observed that by the second paragraph of Article IX of the treat}' of Paris, which reads: The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territorios hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress. The question therefore...

...different wording of this same clause in the treaty for the cession of Porto Rico: * * * " The civil and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded shall be determined by congress." This illustrates the growth of the theory of expansion. Thus beginning...

...and Spain signed at Paris on December 10, 1898 (30 Stat. 1754). By article 19 of the treaty it was provided that : "The civil rights and political status...United States shall be determined by the Congress." By the act of Congress of July 1, 1902, temporarily providing "for the administration of the affairs...

...Indies, and the Island of Guam In the Marianas or Ladronee." Article 9 of the same treaty provides: • "The civil rights and political status of the native...ceded to the United States, shall be determined by congress." The term "foreign" is familiarly used also in a more restricted aense in our interstate...

...nationality of the territory in which they may reside" (Article ninth). Then came this striking provision : "The civil rights and political status of the native...ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress." Spaniards residing in the territories were to be "subject to the jurisdiction of the courts...

...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...

...right of American citizenship upon the residents of those Islands, but simply the one brief sentence, that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories ceded shall be determined by Congress, and the Spaniards, not native of Porto Rico or the Philippines...

...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...inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the Tinted States shall be determined by the Congress. ARTICLE X. The inhabitants of the territories over...

...million dollars within three months after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty. (4) The civil rights and political status of the native...United States shall be determined by the Congress. (5) The inhabitants of the territories over which Spain relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty shall...