Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs to the Secretary of War: 1920

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1920 - 29 páginas
 

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Página 10 - Legislature, and, where necessary to anticipate taxes and revenues, bonds and other obligations may be issued by the Philippine government or any provincial or municipal government therein, as may be provided by law and to protect the public credit: Provided, however, That the entire indebtedness of the Philippine government created by the authority conferred therein shall not exceed at any one time...
Página 7 - Articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, when returned after having been exported, without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of manufacture or other means...
Página 6 - He shall have general supervision and control of all of the departments and bureaus of the government in the Philippine Islands as far as is not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, and shall be commander In chief of all locally created armed forces and militia.
Página 11 - That all inhabitants of the Philippine Islands continuing to reside therein who were Spanish subjects on the eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and then resided in said Islands, and their children born subsequent thereto, shall be deemed and held to be citizens of the Philippine Islands and as such entitled to the protection of the United States...
Página 6 - Provided, That all executive functions of the government must be directly under the Governor General or within one of the executive departments under the supervision and control of the Governor General.
Página 11 - Eligibility to membership in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps shall be limited to students of institutions in which units of such corps may be established who are citizens of the United States, who are not less than fourteen years of age, and whose bodily condition indicates that they are physically fit to perform military duty, or will be so upon arrival at military age.
Página 13 - We therefore submit that the amount of land which may be purchased by any person or corporation should be largely increased. This recommendation was without effect in securing the legislation suggested. It was also without effect in inducing in a serious wav the introduction of American capital in the islands.
Página 22 - FNS may redeem burned or mutilated coupons only to the extent that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the United States Treasury Department can determine the value of the coupons. The firm presenting burned or mutilated coupons for redemption shall submit the coupons to the local FNS Field Office with a properly filled-out redemption certificate.
Página 13 - ... desirability of repealing the limitations contained in section 15 of the act of Congress of July 15, 1902, which forbid the sale of any portion of the public domain to an individual in an amount exceeding 16 hectares and to any corporation or association of persons in an amount exceeding 1,024 hectares. Perhaps the greatest need existing at the present time is the introduction of capital properly directed in the development of the agricultural resources of the islands. The laying out of sugar...

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