Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War ... 1900-1915, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 |
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Page 544 - Philippines and other ceded territories, at the time of the exchange of the ratification of this treaty, shall continue to be respected. Spanish scientific, literary and artistic works, not subversive of public order in the territories in question, shall continue to be admitted free of duty into such territories, for the period of ten years, to be reckoned from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty.
Page 9 - keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope...
Page 292 - location line" shall govern the direction of one side of the claim, upon which the survey shall be extended according to this Act. SEC. 27. That the holder of a mineral claim shall be entitled to all minerals which may lie within his claim, but he shall not be entitled to mine outside the boundary lines of his claim continued vertically downward...
Page 546 - ... located in any foreign country which, by treaty, convention, or law affords similar privileges to citizens of the United States...
Page 545 - States relating to the grant of patents and to the registration of trade-marks, prints, and labels, shall receive the protection accorded them in the United States under said laws; and an infringement of the rights secured by lawful issue of a patent or by registration of a...
Page 317 - ... building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied or is occupied as the home or residence of...
Page 544 - The rights of property secured by copyrights and patents acquired by Spaniards in the Island of Cuba and in Porto Rico, the Philippines and other ceded territories, at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, shall continue to be respected.
Page 299 - Islands is authorized and empowered, on such terms as it may prescribe by general legislation, "to provide for the granting or sale and conveyance to actual occupants and settlers and other citizens of said islands such parts and'portions of the public domain, other than timber and mineral lands, of the United States in said islands as it may deem wise, not exceeding sixteen hectares to any one person, and for the sale and conveyance of not more than...
Page 319 - SEC. 5. That throwing or placing any defiling or poisonous substance, decayed animal or vegetable matter or filth into, or causing or allowing the same to pass or enter into, any spring, well, or river water, used by the public for drinking or cooking purposes, or into the water of any public reservoir or water pipe...
Page 341 - Tonney, medical inspector. Since the appearance of plague in Manila cases have occurred, or rats affected with the disease have been found, in over 500 houses. In order to make a thorough disinfection and cleaning up of these houses the board of health submitted the following resolution to the municipal board, which was enacted as an ordinance: RESOLUTIONS OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH FOR THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND CITY OF MANILA ADOPTED DECEMBER 3, 1901. "Whereas the following houses in which cases of...