...territory is held and controlled by our troops; * * * to devote their attention in the first instance to the establishment of municipal governments, in which...the natives of the Islands, both in the cities and the rural communities, shall be afforded the opportunity to manage their own local affairs to the fullest...

...United States, and at the same time have held open to the people of every community the opportunity to escape from the stringency of military rule by...degree of supervision and control which a careful study of their capacities and observation of the workings of native control show to be consistent with...

...familiar with the conditions and needs of the country, to devote their attention in the first instance to the establishment of municipal governments, in which...and in the rural communities, shall be afforded the oppor5 tunity to manage their own local affairs to the fullest extent of which they are capable, and...

...of the United States to establish among them a just, stable and sovereign government in which they shall be afforded the opportunity to manage their...affairs to the fullest extent of which they are capable consistent with the maintenance of law, order and loyalty, and in which the exercise of their customs...

...governments, in \vhich the natives of the islands, both in the cities and the rural communities, shall he afforded the opportunity to manage their own local affairs to the fullest extent of \\hich they are capable, and subject, to the least decree of supervision and control which a careful...

...directed in the instructions that were issued to it "to devote their attention in the first instance to the establishment of municipal governments in which...degree of supervision and control which a careful study of their capacities and observation of the workings of native control show to be consistent with...

...familiar with the conditions and needs of the country, to devote their attention in the first instance to the establishment of municipal governments, in which...degree of supervision and control which a careful study of their capacities and observation of the workings of a native control show to be consistent...

...familiar with the conditions and needs of the country, to devote their attention in the first instance to the establishment of municipal governments, in which...degree of supervision and control which a careful study of their capacities and observation of the workings of native control show to be consistent with...

...(the Secretary of War) will instruct the commission to devote their attention in the first instance to the establishment of municipal governments, in which...degree of supervision and control which a careful study of their capacities and observation of the workings of native control show to be consistent with...

...given that the commission shall : Devote their attention in the first instance to the establishing of municipal governments in which the natives of the...manage their own local affairs to the fullest extent to which they are capable and subject to the least degree of supervision and control which a careful...