...subjects on the eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and then resided in Porto Rico, and their children born subsequent thereto, shall be deemed and held to be citizens of Porto Rico, and as such entitled to the protection of the United States, except such as shall have...

...relations with the United States. One section of the act declares (sec. 7) : "That all inhabitants continuing to reside therein who were Spanish subjects on the eleventh day of April, eight- (403) een hundred and ninety-nine, and then resident in Porto Rico, and their children born...

...Philippine Islands and for other purposes," approved March eighth, nineteen hundred and two. SEC. 4. That all inhabitants of the Philippine Islands continuing...ninetynine, and then resided in said islands, and (heir children born subsequent thereto. shall be deemed and held to be citizens of the Philippine Islands...

...July 1, 1902, providing for the administration of civil government in the Philippine Islands, declares that "All inhabitants of the Philippine Islands continuing...to reside therein, who were Spanish subjects on the llth day of April, 1S99, and then resided in said's lands, and their children born subsequent thereto,...

...in his discretion, may deem most conducive to the public interests and the general welfare. SEC. 4. That all inhabitants of the Philippine Islands continuing...islands, and their children born subsequent thereto, ehall be deemed and held to be citizens of the Philippine Islands and as such entitled to the protection...

...San Juan and the seat of government shall be maintained there. " Section 7. — That all inhabitants continuing to reside therein who were Spanish subjects...eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and then resided in Porto Rico, and their children born subsequent thereto, shall be deemed and held to be citizens of...

...be citizens of the Philippine Islands. It declares: That all inhabitants of the Philippine Island? continuing to reside therein who were Spanish subjects...on the eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and ninetv-nine. and then resided in said islands, and their children born subsequent thereto, snail be...

...1902, known as the organic act of the Philippine Islands, defines citizens of the Philippine Islands as "all inhabitants of the Philippine Islands continuing...islands, and their children born subsequent thereto," and thus by its terms excludes from citizenship those inhabitants temporarily absent from the islands...

...1902, known as the organic act of the Philippine Islands, defines citizens of the Philippine Islands as "all inhabitants of the Philippine Islands continuing...islands, and their children born subsequent thereto," and thus by its terms excludes from citizenship those inhabitants temporarily absent from the islands...

...reside in Porto Rico who were Spanish subjects on the llth day of April, 1800, and then resided therein, and their children born subsequent thereto, shall be deemed and held to be citizens of Porto Rico. civil government which now exists in that islnnil. it thereby became an organized Territory...