Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of WarU.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 Includes information by the Commission and various public officials and agencies on the economic, social, geographic and local governmental development of the Philippines. |
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Page 252 - In all forms of government and administrative provisions which they are authorized to prescribe the Commission should bear In mind that the government which they are establishing is designed not for our satisfaction or for the expression of our theoretical views, but for the happiness, peace, and prosperity of the people of the Philippine Islands.
Page 5 - 2. That on and after the passage of this Act there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands the rates of duty which are required to be levied, collected, and paid upon like
Page 5 - internal-revenue stamp or stamps to be provided by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and to be procured by purchase from the collector of internal revenue at or most convenient to the port of entry of said merchandise in the United States, and to be affixed under such regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with
Page 70 - of the act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, entitled "An act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes,
Page 255 - That wherever officers of more extended jurisdiction are to be selected in any way, natives of the islands are to be preferred, and if they can be found competent and willing to perform the duties, they are to receive the offices In preference to any
Page 4 - agriculture of the Philippines by this act could in no wise harm any interest in the United States. This question has never been a political one, nor has the duration of our stay in the Philippines any bearing on the desired legislation. When the act "temporarily to provide revenue for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes,
Page 257 - the National Government of the United States, shall have no direct administration except of matters of purely general concern, and shall have only such supervision and control over local governments as may be necessary to secure and enforce faithful and efficient administration by local officers.
Page 257 - among the governments organized by the Commission the presumption is always to be in favor of the smaller subdivision, so that all the powers which can properly be exercised by the municipal government shall be vested in that government, and all the powers of a more general character which can be exercised by the departmental government shall be vested in the
Page 5 - assembled, That the second section of the Act entitled "An Act temporarily to provide revenue for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes, ' ' approved March eighth, nineteen hundred and two, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Page 254 - That in all cases the municipal officers who administer the local affairs of the people are to be selected by the people, and that wherever officers of more extended jurisdiction are to be selected in any way natives of the islands are to be preferred, and if they can be found competent and willing to perform the duties they are to receive the