BEING CERTIFIED TRANSCRIPTS OF ALL THE ORIGINAL ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS
PASSED BY THE SECOND SESSION OF THE EIGHTH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY,
FEBRUARY 14, 1916, TO APRIL 13, 1916, AND APPROVED BY THE GOVER-
NOR, ALSO COPY OF THE ORGANIC ACT, ENTITLED "AN ACT TEM-
PORARILY TO PROVIDE REVENUES AND A CIVIL GOVERNMENT
FOR PORTO RICO, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," ENACTED

BY THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES AND
APPROVED APRIL 12, 1900, TOGETHER WITH

ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS AMENDATORY

THEREOF AND SUPPLEMENTAL

THERETO, AND OTHER LAWS AP-

PLICABLE TO PORTO RICO,

ENACTED BY THE

UNITED STATES

CONGRESS

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR
UNIVERSITY

SAN JUAN, P. R.

BUREAU OF SUPPLIES, PRINTING, AND TRANSPORTATION

1916

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ORGANIC ACT,

AMENDATORY AND SUPPLEMENTAL ACTS

AND RESOLUTIONS,

AND ACTS OF THE UNITED STATES

APPLICABLE TO PORTO RICO

TEMPORARILY TO PROVIDE REVENUES AND A CIVIL GOVERNMENT FOR PORTO
RICO, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress Assembled:

That the provisions of this Act shall apply to the island of Porto Rico and to the adjacent islands and waters of the islands lying east of the seventy-fourth meridian of longitude west of Greenwich, which were ceded to the United States by the Government of Spain by treaty entered into on the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; and the name Porto Rico, as used in this Act, shall be held to include not only the island of that name, but all the adjacent islands as aforesaid.

Section 2. That on and after the passage of this Act the same tariffs, customs, and duties shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles imported into Porto Rico from ports other than those of the United States which are required by law to be collected upon articles imported into the United States from foreign countries: Provided, That on all coffee in the bean or ground imported into Porto Rico there shall be levied and collected a duty of five cents per pound, any law or part of law to the contrary notwithstanding; And provided further, That all Spanish scientific, literary, and artistic works, not subversive of public order in Porto Rico, shall be admitted free of duty into Porto Rico, for a period of ten years, reckoning from the eleventh day of April eighteen hundred and ninetynine, as provided in said treaty of peace between the United States and Spain; And provided further, That all books and pamphlets printed in the English language shall be admitted into Porto Rico free of duty when imported from the United States.

Section 3.-That on and after the passage of this Act all merchandise coming into the United States from Porto Rico and coming into Porto Rico from the United States shall be entered at the several ports of entry upon payment of fifteen per centum of the duties which are required to be levied, collected, and paid upon like articles of merchandise imported from foreign countries; and in addition thereto upon articles of merchandise of Porto Rican manufacture coming into the United States and withdrawn for consumption or sale upon payment of a tax equal to the internal-revenue tax imposed in the United States upon the like articles of merchandise of domestic manufacture; such tax to be paid by internal-revenue stamp or stamps to be purchased and provided by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and to

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