Report of the Governor General of the Philippine Islands

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910
 

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Page 21 - April twelfth, nineteen hundred, "temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes...
Page 21 - That all reports required by law to be made by the governor or heads of departments to any official of the United States shall hereafter be made to an executive department of the Government of the United States to be designated by the President, and the President is hereby authorized to place all matters pertaining to the government of Porto Rico in the jurisdiction of such department. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT SEC. 12. That the supreme executive power shall be vested in an executive officer, whose official...
Page 25 - The policy declared and the assurances given by my predecessor, Secretary Taft, will be strictly adhered to and carried out. As provisional governor I shall exercise the powers and perform the duties contemplated and provided for by the third article of the appendix .to the constitution of Cuba, for the preservation of Cuban independence, and for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty. As soon as it shall prove to be consistent with the attainment of these ends I shall seek to....
Page 3 - That there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles coming Into the United States from the Philippine Islands the rates of duty which are required to be levied, collected, and paid upon like articles imported from foreign countries...
Page 22 - And provided further. That if at the termination of any session the appropriations necessary for the support of government shall not have been made, an amount equal to the sums appropriated in the last appropriation bills for such purposes shall be deemed to be appropriated; and until the legislature shall act in such behalf the treasurer may, with the advice of the governor, make the payments necessary for the purposes aforesaid.
Page 4 - An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Page 3 - Islands or of the United States, or of both, or which do not contain foreign materials to the value of more than 20 per centum of their total value...
Page 5 - Provided, however, That if such articles become unpacked while en route by accident, wreck, or other casualty, or so damaged as to necessitate their repacking, the same shall be admitted free of duty upon satisfactory proof that the unpacking occurred through accident or necessity and that the merchandise involved is the...
Page 4 - States for use and consumption therein, shall be hereafter exempt from the payment of any export duties imposed in the Philippine Islands : And provided further, That there shall be levied, collected, and paid, in the United States, upon articles, goods, wares, or merchandise coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands, a tax equal to the internal-revenue tax imposed in the United States upon the like articles, goods, wares, or merchandise of domestic manufacture; such tax to be paid...
Page 4 - Treasury may prescribe, but all articles, the growth and product of the Philippine Islands, admitted into the ports of the United States free of duty under the provisions of this Act and coming directly from said islands to the United States for use and consumption therein, shall be hereafter exempt from any export duties imposed in the Philippine Islands.

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