§ 733. Citizens; former Spanish subjects and children; body politic; name

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1900

   Pub. L. 56–191 § 7 · 31 Stat. 77

   Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 733

   Apr. 12, 1900, ch. 191, § 7, 31 Stat. 79

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Apr. 12, 1900, ch. 191, § 7, 31 Stat. 79

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 7. That all inhabitants continuing to reside therein who were Spanish subjects deemed citizens of Porto Rico, etc. Spanish 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 elected to preserve their allegiance to the Crown of Spain on or before the eleventh day of April, nineteen hundred, in accordance with the provisions of the treaty of peace Vol. 30, p. 1759. between the United States and Spain entered into on the eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine; and they, together with —to constitute body politic, etc. such citizens of the United States as may reside in Porto Rico, shall constitute a body politic under the name of The People of Porto Rico, with governmental powers as hereinafter conferred, and with power to sue and be sued as such.

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