...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...United States shall be determined by the Congress. Article X.—The inhabitants of the territories over which Spain relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty...

...United States, and “the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territory hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.” Article IX, p. 1759. The military occupation of Porto Rico was immediately followed by the establishment...

...incorporated ? An examination of the Treaty of Paris yields the answer; the Treaty declares that '" The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants...United States shall be determined by the Congress." This is a provision which is found in no other treaty made by the United States, and the effect of...

...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...United States shall be determined by the Congress. (5) The inhabitants of the territories over which Spain relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty shall...

...renounced said nationality and as having adopted that of the territory in which they may reside. The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants...ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress. Article X.—The inhabitants of the territories whose sovereignty Spain renounces or cedes...

...greatly enlarged. The treaty with Spain wisely leaves these rights unmentioned. It says simply that "the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants...ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress." In other treaties it had been provided that the inhabitants of annexed territory might become...

...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 herein ceded to the United States shall be determined by the congress. Article 10. The inhabitants...

...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...United States shall be determined by the Congress." The President of the Spanish Commission objected to this article, as it was read, on various grounds ;...

...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...United States shall be determined by the Congress." The President of the Spanish Commission objected to this article, as it was read, on various grounds; and,...

...a constitutional law." (16 How. 657 ; 19 How. 372.) The pending treaty with Spain provides : " The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants...United States shall be determined by the Congress." (Art. IX.) Hence if Congress should ratify the treaty and do no more, that document alone would measure...