Report of the United States Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War ...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 49 - July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled " An act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, 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 failure of Congress to act on the irrevocable resignation of the President of the Republic of Cuba, or to elect a successor, leaves this country without a government at a time when great disorder prevails, and requires that, pursuant to a request of President Palma, the necessary steps be taken in the name and by the authority of the President of the United States to restore order, protect life and property in the island of Cuba and islands and keys adjacent thereto, and for this purpose, 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 25 - 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 bring about the restoration of the ordinary agencies and methods of government...
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 identical merchandise originally shipped from the United States or the Philippine Islands, as the case may be, and that its condition has not been changed except for such damage...
Page 4 - Islands, there shall be levied, collected, and paid therein upon articles, goods, wares, or merchandise imported Into the Philippine Islands from countries other than the United States, the Internal-revenue tax imposed by the Philippine Government on like articles manufactured and consumed in the Philippine Islands or shipped thereto for consumption therein, from the United States: And provided further, That from and after the...