Briefing on Territorial Matters: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Territories and Insular Affairs ..., 93-1, January 29, 19731973 - 142 من الصفحات |
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68 Stat 82 Stat administering authority administration amended Aug amended by Act American Samoa applicable appointed appropriate approved Article bill CARPENTER Codified committee Commonwealth of Puerto Congress of Micronesia Court of Guam delegate Department District Court duties election enacted executive Federal fiscal funds government comptroller government of Guam Governor and Lieutenant hereby High Commissioner hold office House of Representatives Interior Internal Revenue judge judicial jurisdiction land laws of Guam Legislative Assembly legislature Legislature of Guam Lieutenant Governor Marianas ment municipalities number of members office of Governor Pacific Islands Pago person political President provided by law Puerto Rico pursuant qualified regular session Representative District Secretary Section Senator BARTLETT Senator FANNIN Senator HASKELL Senator JOHNSTON status Swains Island term thereof tion total number trust territory Tutuila U.S. Congress U.S. Virgin Islands United Nations United States attorney vacancy Virgin Islands voters WILSON
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 43 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God...
الصفحة 63 - No suit or proceeding shall be maintained in any court for the recovery of any internal revenue tax alleged to have been erroneously or illegally assessed or collected, or of any penalty claimed to have been collected without authority, or of any sum alleged to have been excessive or in any manner wrongfully collected...
الصفحة 83 - A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner, and under such penalties, as each house may provide.
الصفحة 53 - 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 accordance with the provisions of the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain signed at Paris December tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
الصفحة 97 - If any bill presented to the Governor contain several items of appropriation of money, he may object to one or more of such items while approving of the other portion of the bill. In such case, he shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects; and the appropriation so objected to shall not take effect.
الصفحة 59 - If he approve he shall sign it, and thereupon it shall become a law; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to the House in which it originated, which House shall enter the objections at large upon its journal, and proceed to reconsider it.
الصفحة 75 - The United Nations shall establish under its authority an international trusteeship system for the administration and supervision of such territories as may be placed thereunder by subsequent individual agreements.
الصفحة 58 - That no export duties shall be levied or collected on exports from Porto Rico, but taxes and assessments on property, internal revenue, and license fees, and royalties for franchises, privileges, and concessions may be imposed for the purposes of the insular and municipal governments, respectively, as may be provided and defined by the Legislature of Porto Rico...
الصفحة 57 - General such information regarding the powers, duties, activities, organization, financial transactions, and methods of business of their respective offices as he may from time to time require of them; and the Comptroller General, or any of his assistants or employees, when duly authorized by him, shall, for the purpose of securing such information, have access to and the right to examine any books, documents, papers, or records of any such department or establishment.
الصفحة 75 - The administering authority shall have full powers of administration, legislation, and jurisdiction, over the territory subject to the provisions of this agreement, and may apply to the trust territory, subject to any modifications which the administering authority may consider desirable, such of the laws of the United States as it may deem appropriate to local conditions and requirements.