...XXVI. THE INSULAR POSSESSIONS. CHAPTER 2. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. § 3196a. Public indebtedness.— That the Act entitled "An Act to declare the purpose of...Islands, and to provide a more autonomous government for these islands," approved August 29, 1916, be amended, as follows: That the proviso of section 11 of...

...[Act of July 21, 1921.} [Limitation on indebtedness — temporary certificates of indebtedness.] That the Act entitled "An Act to declare the purpose of...Islands, and to provide a more autonomous government for these islands," approved August 29, 1916, be amended, as follows: That the proviso of section 11 of...

...presiding. The committee had under consideration II. R. 10442, a bill introduced by Mr. Towner , to amend an act entitled ''An act to declare the purpose of the...Islands, and to provide a more autonomous government for these islands," approved August 29, 191 fi, etc. The CHAIRMAN. The committee has been called together...

...became the formal pledge of the American people to the Filipino people. The title of the Jones law is "An act to declare the purpose of the people of the...provide a more autonomous government for those islands." The declaration of purpose is contained in the following preamble: Whereas it was never the intention...

...entitled "An act to declare the pose of the people of the United States as to the future political us of the people of the Philippine Islands, and to provide a more s an indication of the policy ol the United States toward the Philippines the following quotation .he...

...in full, follows: "Whereas the Congress of the United States, by the act approved August 29, 1916, entitled 'An act to declare the purpose of the people...provide a more autonomous government for those islands," vested in the Philippine Legislature, created by said act, general legislative power with respect to...

...Senator King follows: Whereas the Congress of the United States, by the act approved August 29, 1916, entitled "An act to declare the purpose of the people...provide a more autonomous government for those islands," vested in the Philippine Legislature created by said act general legislative power with respect to...

...this matter was the passage of the act known as the Jones Law. The full title of the Jones Law is " An Act to declare the purpose of the people of the...Islands, and to provide a more autonomous government for these Islands." The declaration of purposes is contained in the following preamble: • " Whereas it...

...when in 1916 the United States Congress enacted the Jones Law, whose title reads that its object is to declare the purpose of the people of the United...Islands and "to provide a MORE AUTONOMOUS GOVERNMENT," the American Congress did not mean to diminish the legislative control already vested in the Filipino...

...people of the United States as to the future political status of the people of the Philippine Island's and to provide a more autonomous government for those islands,' approved August 29, 1916, the Philippine Legislature is hereby authorized to provide for a general election of delegates to a...