...witiiiu a year from the date of the signature of this treaty, a declaration of their decision to reserve such allegiance, in default of which declaration they...nationality of the territory in which they may reside. Except as provided in this treaty, the civil rights and political status of the inhabitants of the...

...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...ceded to the United States, shall be determined by congress." The term "foreign" is familiarly used also in a more restricted aense in our interstate...

...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...ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress." Spaniards residing in the territories were to be "subject to the jurisdiction of the courts...

...Spanish, and, by the treaty, Peninsulars, not deciding to preserve their allegiance to Spain, were to be "held to have renounced it, and to have adopted...nationality of the territory in which they may reside." Thereupon Congress passed the act of April 12, 1900. That act created a civil government for Porto...

...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...

...Spain by making, before a court of record, within a year of the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty, a declaration of their decision to...declaration they shall be held to have renounced it and to adopt the nationality of the territory in which they may reside. (Article IX.) It is a fundamental...

...Islands, that the United States should pay to Spain the sum of twenty millions of dollars, and that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories thus ceded to the United States should be determined by the Congress. The treaty was ratified by the...

...Spain by making, before a court of record, within a year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty, a declaration of their decision to...status of the native inhabitants of the territories herein ceded to the United States shall be determined by the congress. Article 10. The inhabitants...

...Spain by making, before a court of record, within a year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty, a declaration of their decision to...status of the native inhabitants of the territories herein ceded to the United States shall be determined by the congress. Article 10. The inhabitants...

...making before a court of record, within a year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of the treaty, a declaration of their decision to preserve...political status of the native inhabitants of the territory hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by Congress. The inhabitants of the...