Chapter 65. To amend an Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.” March 23, 1912.[[H
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CHAP. 65.— An Act To amend an Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.” March 23, 1912.[[H. R. 17837](/us/bill/62/hr/17837).][[Public. No. 109](/us/pl/62/109).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section four of the Act of Philippine Islands.Vol. 32. p. 692, amended.Congress approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes,” is hereby amended to read as follows:
" Sec. 4. That all inhabitants of the Philippine Islands continuing Philippine citizenship defined.to reside therein who were Spanish subjects on the eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, 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 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: *Provided*, That the Philippine Legislature is hereby *Proviso*.Extension of right to citizenship by legislature.authorized to provide by law for the acquisition of Philippine citizenship by those natives of the Philippine Islands who do not come within the foregoing provisions, the natives of other insular possessions of the United States, and such other persons residing in the Philippine Islands who could become citizens of the United States under the laws of the United States if residing therein.
” " Approved, March 23, 1912.