...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...

...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 President...

...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...

...Indies, and the Island of Guam In the Marianas or Ladronee." Article 9 of the same treaty provides: • "The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States, shall be determined by congress." The term "foreign"...

...signed at Paris on December 10, 1898 (30 Stat. 1754). By article 19 of the treaty it was 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." By the act of Congress...

...nationality of the territory in which they may reside" (Article ninth). Then came this striking provision : "The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress." Spaniards residing...

...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." By the Constitution...

...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...

...adopted the nationality of the territory in which they may reside. Jt will be noted that the treaty does not provide that the nationality adopted is that...political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress. Wherever in said treat}-...

...million dollars within three months after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty. (4) 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. (5) The inhabitants...