The Virgin Islands: Hearing Before the Committee on Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Sixty-ninth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 10865, a Bill to Provide a Permanent Government for the Virgin Islands, and for Other Purposes. December 20, 1926U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927 - 39 Seiten |
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Seite 29 - States, or of both, or which do not contain foreign materials to the value of more than 20 per centum of their total value, upon which no drawback of customs duties has been allowed therein, coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands shall hereafter be admitted free of duty...
Seite 29 - That the income tax laws now in force in the United States of America and those which may hereafter be enacted shall be held to be likewise in force in the Virgin Islands of the United States, except that the proceeds of such taxes shall be paid into the treasuries of said islands," and the Act of July 1, 1922 (ch.
Seite 28 - Winston and he has nothing further to tell us, let us thank him for coming and excuse him.
Seite 28 - Congress, all the military, civil, and judicial powers as well as the power to make all rules and regulations necessary for the government of the Canal Zone and all the rights, powers, and authority granted by the terms of said...
Seite 37 - This recommendation accords with the report of the committee of the National Tax Association on a model system of state and local taxation.
Seite 29 - ... effect in said islands, and the same shall be administered by the civil officials and through the local judicial tribunals established in said islands, respectively ; and the orders, judgments, and decrees of said judicial tribunals shall be duly enforced. With the approval of the President, or under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe, any of said laws may be repealed, altered, or amended by the colonial council having jurisdiction.
Seite 29 - Act there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles coming into the United States or its possessions, from the West Indian Islands ceded to the United States by Denmark, the rates of duty and internal-revenue taxes which are required to be levied, collected, and paid upon like articles imported from foreign countries...
Seite 28 - Stat. 910 provided that all military, civil and judicial powers, necessary to govern the islands...
Seite 15 - Islands, what is your idea with respect to turning them over to the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department, like we have turned the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico over to that bureau?