Acts of the Legislature of Puerto Rico1914 |
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Act entitled Act shall take Act to amend Act to establish Aguadilla amend an Act AMEND SECTION amount appointed approved March 13 Arecibo Assembly of Porto bonds business or industry cents clerk collector Commissioner conflict herewith Contingent expenses corporation District Court duties enacted entitled An Act exceed Executive Council fifth class fiscal fourth class funds Governor of Porto Guánica Guayama hereby authorized hereby repealed hereinafter herewith are hereby Humacao hundred Insular Government Insular Treasury Interior internal revenue Irrigation Commission irrigation system Joint Resolution laws in conflict Legislative Assembly March 9 Mayagüez ment municipal council Organic Act owner paid payment permanent irrigation district Ponce Porto Rico prescribed purposes regulations rights or concessions Salaries San Germán San Juan school boards second class Secretary of Porto Section 1.-That stenographer temporary irrigation district thereof third class tion tract of land Treasurer of Porto United University of Porto water rights Yauco
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Page 8 - Islands, and their children born subsequent thereto, shall be deemed and held to be citizens of the Philippine Islands and as such entitled to the protection of the United States, except such as shall have elected to preserve their allegiance to the Crown of Spain in accordance with the provisions of the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain signed at Paris December tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
Page 49 - Third, such as shall be conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts previously contracted in the course of its dealings. Fourth, such as it shall purchase at sales under judgments, decrees, or mortgages held by the association, or shall purchase to secure debts to it.
Page 113 - ... no laborer, workman or mechanic in the employ of the contractor, sub-contractor or other person doing or contracting to do the whole or a part of the work contemplated by the contract shall be permitted or required to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day except in cases of extraordinary emergency caused by fire, flood or danger to life or property.
Page 105 - That any person who shall neglect or refuse to attend and testify, or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to produce...
Page 20 - April twelfth, nineteen hundred, " temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes...
Page 12 - States, and shall execute such requirements as may be imposed by law with respect thereto, and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law, and make such reports through the Governor to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States as he may require, which shall annually be transmitted to Congress.
Page 10 - ... not, however, including defenses, barracks, harbors, lighthouses, buoys, and other works undertaken by the United States, shall, except as otherwise specifically provided by the Congress, be paid by the treasurer of Porto Rico out of the revenue in his custody. SEC. 7. That all property which may have been acquired in Porto Rico by the United States...
Page 17 - States as is vested in the circuit and district courts of the United States; and the said supreme and district courts of the...
Page 43 - An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year 1915 and for prior years, and for other purposes," as amended by the act of March 21, 1918 (40 Stat.
Page 8 - ... Rico now in force shall continue in full force and effect, except as altered, amended, or modified hereinafter, or as altered or modified by military orders and decrees in force when this Act shall take effect, and so far as the same are not inconsistent or in conflict with the statutory laws of the United States...