Organic Act (July 1, 1902)U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - 63 páginas |
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Act of Congress Act of July Act temporarily adverse claim affidavit amended by Sec America in Congress applicant appointed assembly bonds bureau of public centavos centum certificates city of Manila civil government Congress assembled Congress of Feb coupon bonds Department departmental governments described as mining dollars duties election enacted English language entitled An Act ernment establishment exercise filing franchises gold coin granted guaranty hectares hereafter hereby authorized House of Representatives Islands is hereby issue March eighth ment mineral claim mineral lands mining recorder municipal nineteen hundred patent payable payment Philippine Assembly Philippine Commission Philippine government Philippine insular bureau Philippine Islands pine Islands posts numbered prescribed President provincial secretary public lands purposes railroad repealed Resident Commissioners rules and regulations Secretary of War Senate and House Spanish language Stat supreme court survey taxation taxes temporarily to provide therein thereof tion treasury United
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Página 20 - ... shall be open to relocation in the same manner as If no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location.
Página 27 - Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Página 21 - ... together with a notice of such application for a patent, in a conspicuous place on the land embraced in such plat previous to the filing of the application for a patent, and shall file an affidavit of at least two persons, that such notice has been duly posted...
Página 44 - In all the forms of government and administrative provisions which they are authorized to prescribe the Commission should bear in mind that the government which they are establishing is designed not for our satisfaction, or for the expression of our theoretical views, but for the happiness, peace, and prosperity of the people of the Philippine Islands...
Página 7 - That no person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense without due process of law; and no person for the same offense shall be twice put in jeopardy of punishment, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself. That all persons shall before conviction be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses.
Página 22 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim, to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment: and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
Página 27 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed ; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
Página 33 - ... per centum per annum, payable quarterly, such bonds to be payable at the pleasure of the United States...
Página 26 - Where non-mineral land not contiguous to the vein or lode is used or occupied by the proprietor of such vein or lode for mining or milling purposes, such non-adjacent surface-ground may be embraced and included in an application for a patent for such vein or lode, and the same may be patented therewith, subject to the same preliminary requirements as to survey and notice as are applicable to veins or lodes...
Página 28 - The three preceding sections shall be held to authorize only one entry by the same person or association of persons ; and no association of persons, any member of which shall have taken the benefit of such sections, either as an individual or as a member of any other association, shall enter or hold any other lands under the provisions thereof...