CONGRESS. (THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.) 



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This also provides for two commissioners, to be 

 elected by the legislature. 



" The Senate further recedes from its disagree- 

 ment to the provisions of the House bill relating 

 to public lands, and agrees to the same with an 

 amendment reducing the amount of land to be 

 held by corporations from 2,000 hectares to 1,024 

 hectares. The Senate has further agreed to the 

 House provisions restricting the ownership and 

 control by members of corporations, and corpo- 

 rations, of mining and agricultural lands, with 

 additional stringent provisions limiting these 

 holdings. 



" In the coinage provision reported, the Senate 

 recedes from its provision for the coinage of a 

 Philippine silver dollar, and the House recedes 

 from its provision for the establishment of a gold 

 standard. The report agrees upon the provisions 

 for subsidiary coins and minor coins, the names 

 of which are to be those contained in the House 

 bill, and substantially as provided for in the 

 House bill. 



" The provisions relating to banks are elimi- 

 nated from the bill. 



" The bill contains the legislative limitations 

 and bill of rights, complete, as in the House bill. 



" The mining provisions of the bill reported 

 are a combination of the provisions of the min- 

 ing features of the two bills." 



The President approved the bill in its final 

 form, July 1, 1902. Its text is as follows: 



" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 

 Representatives of the United States of America 

 in Congress assembled, That the action of the 

 President of the United States in creating the 

 Philippine Commission and authorizing said com- 

 mission to exercise the powers of government to 

 the extent and in the manner and form and sub- 

 ject to the regulation and control set forth in 

 the instructions of the President to the Philip- 

 pine Commission, dated April 17, 1900, and in 

 creating ' the offices of civil governor and_ vice- 

 governor of the Philippine Islands, and author- 

 izing said civil governor and vice-governor to 

 exercise the powers of government to the ex- 

 tent and in the manner and form set forth 

 in the Executive order dated June 21, 1901, 

 and in establishing four executive departments 

 of government in said islands as set forth in the 

 act of the Philippine Commission, entitled, ' An 

 Act providing an organization for the depart- 

 ments of the interior, of commerce and police, 

 of finance and justice, and of public instruction,' 

 enacted Sept. 6, 1901, is hereby approved, rati- 

 fied, v and confirmed, and, until otherwise pro- 

 vided by law, the said islands shall continue to be 

 governed as thereby and herein provided, and all 

 laws passed hereafter by the Philippine Commis- 

 sion shall have an enacting clause as follows: 

 ' By authority of the United States be it enacted 

 by the Philippine Commission.' 



" The provisions of section 1891 of the Revised 

 Statutes of 1878 shall not apply to the Philip- 

 pine Islands. 



" Future appointments of civil governor, vice- 

 governor, members of said commission, and heads 

 of executive departments shall be made by the 

 President, by and with the advice and consent 



tthe Senate. 

 " SEC. 2. That the action of the President 

 the United States heretofore taken by virtue 

 of the authority vested in him as Commander- 

 in-Chief of the Army and Navy, as set forth in 

 his order of July 12, 1898, whereby a tariff of 

 duties and taxes as set forth by said order was 

 to be levied and collected at all ports and places 

 in the Philippine Islands upon passing into the 



occupation and possession of the forces of the 

 United States, together with the subsequent 

 amendments of said order, are hereby approved, 

 ratified, and confirmed, and the actions of the 

 authorities of the government of the Philippine 

 Islands, taken in accordance with the provisions 

 of said order and subsequent amendments, are 

 hereby approved: Provided, That nothing con- 

 tained in this section shall be held to amend or 

 repeal an act entitled ' An Act temporarily to 

 provide revenue for the Philippine Islands, and 

 for other purposes,' approved March 8, 1902. 



" SEC. 3. That the President of the United 

 States, during such time as and whenever the 

 sovereignty and authority of the United States 

 encounter armed resistance in the Philippine Is- 

 lands, until otherwise provided by Congress, shall 

 continue to regulate and control commercial in- 

 tercourse with and within said islands by such 

 general rules and regulations as he, in his dis- 

 cretion, may deem most conducive to the public 

 interest and the general welfare. 



" SEC. 4. That all inhabitants of the Philip- 

 pine Islands continuing to reside therein who 

 were Spanish subjects on April 11, 1899, and then 

 resided in said islands, and their children born 

 subsequent thereto, shall be deemed and held to 

 be citizens of the Philippine Islands and as such 

 entitled to the protection of the United States, 

 except such as shall have elected to preserve 

 their allegiance to the Crown of Spain in accord- 

 ance with the provisions of the treaty of peace 

 between the United Spates and Spain signed at 

 Paris, Dec. 10, 1898. 



" SEC. 5. That no law shall be enacted in said 

 islands which shall deprive any person of life, 

 liberty, or property without due process of law, 

 or deny to any person therein the equal protec- 

 tion of the laws. 



" That in all criminal prosecutions the accused 

 shall enjoy the right to be heard by himself and 

 counsel, to demand the nature and cause of the 

 accusation against him, to have a speedy and 

 public trial, to meet the witnesses face to face, 

 and to have compulsory process to compel the at- 

 tendance of witnesses in his behalf. 



" 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 com- 

 pelled in any criminal case to be a witness 

 against himself. 



" That all persons shall before conviction be 

 bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital 

 offenses. 



" That no law impairing the obligation of con- 

 tracts shall be enacted. 



" That no person shall be imprisoned for debt. 



" That the privilege of the writ of habeas 

 corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in 

 cases of rebellion, insurrection, or invasion the 

 public safety may require it, in either of which 

 events the same may be suspended by the Presi- 

 dent, or by the governor, with the approval of 

 the Philippine Commission, wherever during such 

 period the necessity for such suspension shall 

 exist. 



" That no e.r post facto law or bill of attainder 

 shall be enacted. 



" That no law granting a title of nobility shall 

 be enacted, and no person holding any office of 

 profit or trust in said islands, shall, without 

 the consent of the Congress of the United States, 

 accept any present, emolument, office, or title of 

 any kind whatever from any king, queen, prince, 

 or foreign State. 



" That excessive bail shall not be required, nor 



