48 U.S.C. § 733 — Citizens; former Spanish subjects and children; body politic; name

submitted 126 years ago by ch. 191 to r/title-48-TERRITORIES-AND-INSULAR-POSSESSIONS · 148 words · no verdicts yet

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This section addresses citizenship and political status in Puerto Rico. It states rules concerning former Spanish subjects, their children, the body politic, and the name used for the government.

All inhabitants continuing to reside in Puerto Rico who were Spanish subjects on the 11th day of April 1899, and then resided in Puerto Rico, and their children born subsequent thereto, must be treated and held to be citizens of Puerto Rico, and as such entitled to the protection of the United States, except such as must have elected to preserve their allegiance to the Crown of Spain on or before the 11th day of April 1900, under the provisions of the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain entered into on the 11th day of April 1899; and they, together with such citizens of the United States as may reside in Puerto Rico, must constitute a body politic under the name of the People of Puerto Rico, with governmental powers as hereinafter conferred, and with power to sue and be sued as such.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

All inhabitants continuing to reside in Puerto Rico who were Spanish subjects on the 11th day of April 1899, and then resided in Puerto Rico, and their children born subsequent thereto, shall be deemed and held to be citizens of Puerto Rico, 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 on or before the 11th day of April 1900, in accordance with the provisions of the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain entered into on the 11th day of April 1899; and they, together with such citizens of the United States as may reside in Puerto Rico, shall constitute a body politic under the name of the People of Puerto Rico, with governmental powers as hereinafter conferred, and with power to sue and be sued as such.

Source credit: (Apr. 12, 1900, ch. 191, § 7, 31 Stat. 79; May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 Stat. 158.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1900Enacted · Act of Apr. 12, 1900, ch. 191 · 31 Stat. 79
1932Amended · Act of May 17, 1932, ch. 190 · 47 Stat. 158

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