...Puerto Rican people. Citing again from the same book, I have here the Treaty of Paris, 1898, section 9 : The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territory hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress. The Puerto Rican Parliament...

...to have renounced it and to have adopted the nationality of the territory in which they may reside. The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress. The Organic Act of Puerto Rico,...

...provision.1 " In the treaty with Spain transferring Puerto Rico to this country, it was provided : ' The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.'* Legally the political status...

...Under the Treaty of Paris between the united States and Spain of 1898 (30 Star. 1899), it was provided that "the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of [Puerto Rico] shall be determined by the Congress." In the Jones Act of 1917 Congress conferred US...

...Under the Treaty of Paris between the United States and Spain of 1899 (30 Stat. 1899), it was provided that "the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of [Puerto Rico] shall be determined by the Congress." In the Jones Act of 1917 Congress conferred US...

...United States by virtue of the Treaty of Paris of 1899 (30 Stat. 1754). Article 9 of said treaty reads : The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories (Puerto Rico and the Philippines) hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress....

...the same undoubtedly will be raised by others similarly situated. ' ' The Treaty of Paris provided that : ' The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.' 30 Stat. 1759, Article 9. We...

...of the United States? A. Well, I suggest that to some extent, in my letter, the Treaty of Paris says that "the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress." Now, it can be argued that that...

...whereby Spain ceded the Philippine Islands to the United States, Congress was authorized to determine the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the Philippine Islands. By Act of Congress of July 1, 1902 (32 Stat. 691, 692) it was declared that all...

...December, 1898, and confirmed by the Senate on the 6th of February 1899. Article II. of the treaty states that 'the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress.' Section 8, Article I., of the Constitution...