...witiiiu a year from the date of the signature of this treaty, a declaration of their decision to reserve such allegiance, in default of which declaration they...nationality of the territory in which they may reside. Except as provided in this treaty, the civil rights and political status of the inhabitants of the...

...It will be observed that by the second paragraph of Article IX of the treat}' of Paris, which reads: The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territorios hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress. The question therefore...

...and, remember, Congress was then in regular session. The treaty of peace, article 9, provides that " the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territory here by ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress " After the ratification...

...Spanish, and, by the treaty, Peninsulars, not deciding to preserve their allegiance to Spain, were to be "held to have renounced it, and to have adopted...nationality of the territory in which they may reside." Thereupon Congress passed the act of April 12, 1900. That act created a civil government for Porto...

...of American citizenship upon the residents of those Islands, but simply the one brief sentence, that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories ceded shall be determined by Congress, and the Spaniards, not native of Porto Rico or the Philippines...

...case they remain in the territory, may preserve their allegiance to the Crown of Spain by making * * * a declaration of their decision to preserve such allegiance; in default of such declaration they shall l>e held to have renounced it and to have adopted the nationality of the...

...Islands, that the United States should pay to Spain the sum of twenty millions of dollars, and that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories thus ceded to the United States should be determined by the Congress. The treaty was ratified by the...

...crown of Spain by making, before a court of record, within a year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty, a declaration of their...status of the native inhabitants of the territories herein ceded to the United States shall be determined by the congress. Article 10. The inhabitants...

...crown of Spain by making, before a court of record, within a year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty, a declaration of their...status of the native inhabitants of the territories herein ceded to the United States shall be determined by the congress. Article 10. The inhabitants...

...making before a court of record, within a year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of the treaty, a declaration of their decision to preserve...political status of the native inhabitants of the territory hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress. The inhabitants of the...