Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905 - Philippines
Includes information by the Commission and various public officials and agencies on the economic, social, geographic and local governmental development of the Philippines.
 

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Page 304 - An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Page 500 - Chinese laborers," wherever used in this act shall be construed to mean both skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining.
Page 405 - That no merchandise shall be transported by water, or by land and water, on penalty of forfeiture thereof, between points in the United States, including Districts, Territories, and possessions thereof embraced within the coastwise laws, either directly or via a foreign port, or for any part of the transportation, in any other vessel than a vessel built in and documented under the laws of the United States...
Page 364 - Payments to contractors. — (a) Unless otherwise provided in the specifications, partial payments will be made as the work progresses at the end of each calendar month, or as soon thereafter as practicable, on estimates made and approved by the contracting officer.
Page 511 - A merchant Is a person engaged In buying and selling merchandise, at a fixed place of business, which business Is conducted In his name, and who during the time he claims to be encased as a merchant does not engage In the performance of any manual labor, except such as Is necessary In the conduct of his business as such merchant.
Page 355 - ... at the end of the year than at the beginning of the year. The...
Page 339 - Issued by any bank, association, corporation, company, or person, including as circulation all certified checks and all notes and other obligations calculated or intended to circulate or to be used as money...
Page 405 - That on and after the passage of this Act the same tonnage taxes shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all foreign vessels coming into the United States from the Philippine Archipelago which are required by law to be levied, collected, and paid upon vessels coming into the United States from foreign countries...
Page 405 - That no goods, wares, or merchandise shall be imported, under penalty of forfeiture thereof, from one port of the United States to another port of the United States...
Page 355 - That no person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense without due process of law; and no person for the same offense shall be twice put in jeopardy of punishment, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.

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