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Page 104 - ... nobility shall be enacted, and no person holding any office of profit or trust...
Page 407 - Certificates of origin of raw tobacco may be required by the customs authorities when proof of the place of production is necessary. REPEALING. — SEC. 20. Repealing clause. REPERTORY AND INDEX. —SEC. 21. Repertory and index. TITLE. —SEC. 22. Title of act "Tariff Revision Law, of 1901.
Page 284 - The 90 per cent. of the Christian Filipinos who do not speak Spanish are really Christians. They are capable of education, and they have no caste or arbitrary customs which prevent their development along the lines of Christian civilization. They are merely in a state of Christian pupilage. They are imitative. They are glad to be educated, glad to study some language other than their own, and glad to follow European and American ideals.
Page 359 - And as the Island is, upon its evacuation by Spain, to be occupied by the United States, the United States will, so long as such occupation shall last, assume and discharge the obligations that may under international law result from the fact of its occupation, for the protection of life and property. Article 2. — Spain cedes to the United States the Island of Porto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, and the Island of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones.
Page 406 - SEC. 8. Duties shall be paid in United States money except that: The following coins now in circulation in the Philippine Islands shall be received for customs duties and taxes at the following rates in money of the United States: Peso, fifty cents; Medio Peso, twenty -five cents; Peseta, ten cents: Media Peseta, five cents, but such rates shall be changed in accordance with a quarterly proclamation of the civil governor.
Page 407 - Tobacco, raw, grown in the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela, and New Biscay (Luzon Islands) 100 kilos gross..
Page 223 - MAURO PRIETO, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE GERMINAL CIGAR AND CIGARETTE FACTORY. The statement of Mr. Prieto is as follows : REPORT ON THE CULTIVATION OF TOBACCO IN THE PROVINCE OF CAGAYAN (LUZON). Cagayan, situated in the extreme north of the Island of Luzon, enjoys a more temperate climate than the rest of this island and the other islands of the Archipelago.
Page 410 - ... is a question which will doubtless have to be settled by another generation than the present, both of the American and of the Philippine people, to whose wisdom and generosity we may safely trust the solution of the problem. Should the Philippine people when fit for self-government, demand independence, I should be strongly in favor of giving it to them, and I have no doubt that the American people of the next generation would be of the same opinion.
Page 82 - For the present and future welfare of the people of this province, I trust that the entire complement of American primary teachers may be made up." Mr. Prescott F. Jernegan, of the Manila Normal School, says : — " The work of the teacher cannot be understood unless he is thought of as discharging the many-sided functions, other than religious, formerly the prerogative of the Spanish friar. Socially, and in his intellectual influence, he is the successor of the man who for centuries was the controlling...
Page 243 - Hawaiian situation be found to predict an increase in output of 100 per cent in twent}'-five years, or even in one hundred years. The land and water are not there to double with. Nor will Louisiana likely more than double her product in twenty-five years — and these two sources make up about two-thirds of the present domestic supply. If consumption should double, and the present domestic supply should double, our present importation would have to double exactly, and this importation would require...