...provisions of the treaty do not stipulate for incorporation, but on the contrary expressly provide that the " civil rights and political status of the...native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded," shall be determined by Congress. When the rights to which this careful provision refers are put in...

...so far failed to execute the clause, Article IX, which provides that that body shall " determine " the "civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded." The above decision, it seems, has been considered by some to hold that Porto Ricans, as they are not...

...acting at all and the general rule ol nationality applied to him. It is true that the same clause (IX) provides that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress. But this determination belonged to Congress...

...known as the Philippine Islands, that the United States should pay to Spain the sum of $20,000,000, and that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories thus ceded to the United States should be determined by the congress. "The treaty was ratified by the...

...known as the Philippine Islands, that the United States should pay to Spain the sum of $20.000,000, and that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories thus ceded to the United States should be determined by the Congress. The treaty was ratified by the...

...the United States the island of Porto Rico " and other islands under Spanish sovereignty. Article IX provides that "the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territory hereby ceded shall be determined by Congress." The question presented is whether the cession...

...Jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States. The treaty of peace with Spain (article 9) provides that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territory ceded by Spain to the United States shall be determined by congress. Held, that ivlator,...

...Philippine Islands, that the United States should pay to Spain the sum of twenty millions of dollars, and that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories thus ceded to the United States should be determined by the Congress. The treaty was ratified by the...

...treaty of Paris (1898) asserted, and had adopted at the end of the ninth article the following clause, "The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories (islands) hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress" : of the United States."...

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