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accounts acre agricultural school Aguas Buenas American amount appropriations approved April Arecibo assembly of Porto assessment audited auditor authority Balance bank Bayamon board of health bond as register buildings bureau Cabo Rojo Caguas cent charity school civil government Coamo coffee collected collector of internal commissioner Contingent expenses crop deputy collectors disbursing officers duties ending June 30 executive council expenditures fiscal franchise governor of Porto Gurabo Humacao improvement increase insular government insular police insular revenues internal revenue internal-revenue island issue José July June 30 land legislative assembly Mayaguez ment months municipal Payment on bond Ponce Porto Rico present pupils purposes register of deeds Rican road rural schools Sabana Grande salaries San Juan school board session spading forks Spanish sugar Superior board supervisor taxation teachers tion Toa Alta tobacco treasurer of Porto treasurer's receipt trust funds United Vieques Yauco
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Page 81 - That all grants of franchises, rights, and privileges or concessions of a public or quasi-public nature shall be -made by the executive council, with the approval of the governor, and all franchises granted in Porto Rico shall be reported to Congress, which hereby reserves the power to annul or modify the same.
Page 329 - April twelfth, nineteen hundred, "temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes...
Page 333 - States, free of duty, all laws or parts of laws to the contrary notwithstanding; and whenever the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico shall have enacted and put into operation a system of local taxation to meet the necessities of the government of Porto Rico by this act established, and shall by resolution duly passed so notify the President, he shall make proclamation thereof, and thereupon all tariff duties on merchandise and articles going into Porto Rico from the United States or coming into the...
Page 338 - Our capacity to produce has developed so enormously and our products have so multiplied that the problem of more markets requires our urgent and immediate attention. Only a broad and enlightened policy will keep what we have. No other policy will get more. In these times of marvelous business energy and gain we ought to be looking to the future, strengthening the weak places in our industrial and commercial systems, that we may be ready for any storm or strain.
Page 338 - Our industrial enterprises, which have grown to such great proportions, affect the homes and occupations of the people and the welfare of the country. Our capacity to produce has developed so enormously and our products have so multiplied that the problem of more markets requires our urgent and immediate attention.
Page 82 - That all franchises or rights granted under this act shall forbid the issue of stock or bonds except in exchange for actual cash or for property at a fair valuation equal to the par value of the stock or bonds so issued; shall forbid the declaring of stock or bond dividends, and, in the case of public service corporations, shall provide for the effective regulation of the charges...
Page 52 - Rico, shall not be covered into the general fund of the Treasury, but shall be held as a separate fund, and shall be placed at the disposal of the President to be used for the government and benefit of Porto Rico...
Page 332 - States or coining into the United States from Porto Rico shall cease, and from and after such date all such merchandise and articles shall be entered at the several ports of entry free of duty: and in no event shall any duties be collected after the first day of March, nineteen hundred and two, on merchandise...
Page 257 - States that colonization carried forward by the armies of war is vastly more costly than that carried forward by the armies of peace, whose outposts and garrisons are the public schools of the advancing nation. Five hundred thousand dollars for one year, or even that sum for a series of years, would not support a very extensive military campaign. But...