...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 hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress." || The President of the Spanish Commission...

...It will be observed that by the second paragraph of Article IX of the treat}' of Paris, which reads: The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territorios hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress. The question therefore...

...different wording of this same clause in the treaty for the cession of Porto Rico: * * * " The civil and political status of the native inhabitants of...the territories hereby ceded shall be determined by congress." This illustrates the growth of the theory of expansion. Thus beginning with the Louisiana...

...do ; and, remember, Congress was then in regular session. The treaty of peace, article 9, provides that " the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territory here by ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress " After the ratification...

...Spain signed at Paris on December 10, 1898 (30 Stat. 1754). By article 19 of the treaty it was provided that : "The civil rights and political status of the...native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress." By the act of Congress of July 1, 1902,...

...Indies, and the Island of Guam In the Marianas or Ladronee." Article 9 of the same treaty provides: • "The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States, shall be determined by congress." The term "foreign" is familiarly used also...

...nationality of the territory in which they may reside" (Article ninth). Then came this striking provision : "The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress." Spaniards residing in the territories were to...

...to 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 hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress." By the Constitution of the Spanish monarchy...

...right of American citizenship upon the residents of those Islands, but simply the one brief sentence, that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories ceded shall be determined by Congress, and the Spaniards, not native of Porto Rico or the Philippines...

...to 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 hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress. Ordinarily, treaties ceding territory contain...