Commercial Handbook of the Philippine Islands: 1924 |
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abaca agricultural Albay American amount annual Archipelago bank Batangas Benguet Bukidnon Bulacan BUREAU OF COMMERCE Bureau of Science Cagayan Camarines capital Cavite Cebu cent China Chinese cigars City of Manila coal coconut oil COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY Company copra cotton crops cultivated Davao demand deposits domestic East Indies Embroidery established extensive factories fiber Filipino fish foreign forests Government growing hats hectares Hongkong Ilocos Norte Ilocos Sur Iloilo important increase interisland ippine Japan kapok kilos valued labor Laguna land lauan Luzon machinery maguey Manila hemp manufacture Masbate materials MILLION PESOS mills Mindanao Mindoro native Nueva nuts Occidental Negros operation output Pampanga Pangasinan PESOS Philippine exports Philippine Islands pine plantations plants port present principal quantities Railroad rice Rizal rubber shell ships Spain Spanish species sponge Sulu supply tariff Tayabas timber tion tobacco tons trees trepang tropical United vessels wood Zamboanga
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Page 26 - They are appointed by the President of the United States, with the consent of the United States Senate.
Page 176 - ... association shall at .all times have on hand in lawful money of the United States, an amount equal to at least fifteen per centum of the aggregate amount of its notes in circulation, and of its deposits.
Page 73 - States or of any state thereof and authorized to transact business in the Philippine Islands, may lease any tract of agricultural public land available for lease under the provisions of this act, not exceeding a total of one thousand and twenty-four hectares: provided, that citizens of countries the laws of which grant to citizens of the Philippine Islands the same rights to lease public land as to their own citizens, may, while such laws are in force, but not thereafter, with the express authorization...
Page 77 - The abaca plantations in the Philippines are usually in small patches of land owned by individual farmers, who do the planting and the stripping of the fiber, although they usually require extra help in stripping. Extensive plantations of hemp, however, are found in many places. The following table will show the areas planted to abaca and the volume and value of the output during the last eleven years : Abaca is primarily a cordage fiber and as a cordage material it has no equal. For ships...
Page 22 - Philippine legislative body is composed of two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives. There are in all 91 representatives and 24 senators, represent'n£ the 48 provinces of the Archipelago.
Page 176 - Stocks, securities, etc Banking house, furniture and fixtures Other real estate and mortgages owned Due from National banks...
Page 73 - States, and any corporation or association of which at least 61 per centum of the capital stock or of any interest in said capital stock belongs wholly to citizens of the Philippine Islands or of the United States...
Page 73 - Any citizen of the Philippine Islands or of the United States, over the age of 18 years, or the head of a family, who does not own more than...
Page 73 - States, and which is organized and constituted under the laws of the Philippine Islands or of the United States or of any state thereof and authorized to transact business in the Philippine Islands...
Page 171 - SEC. 44. Right of Action for Damages.— Notwithstanding the provisions of existing laws to the contrary, Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and seventy-four, as amended, entitled 'An act to extend and regulate the responsibility of employers for personal injuries and death suffered by their employees while at work', shall apply to farm workers insofar as it may be applicable.