Rizal Province directory, Volume I.

he recognizes and accepts the supreme authority of and will maintain
the faith and allegiance to the United States.
(3) Absolute toleration of religious sentiments shall be secured and
no inhabitant or religious organization shall be molested in person or
property on account of religious belief or mode of worship.
(4) Property owned by the United States, cemeteries, churches, and
parsonages or convents appurtenant thereto, and all lands, buildings and
improvements used exclusively for religious, charitable, or educational
purposes shall be exept from taxation.
(5) Trade relations between the Philippine Islands and the United
States shall be upon the basis prescribed in Section 6.
(6) The public debt of the Philippine Islands and its subordinate
branches shall not exceed limits now or hereafter fixed by the Congress of the United States; and no loans shall be contracted in foreign
countries without the approval of the President of the United States.
(7) The debts, liabilities, and obligations of the present Philippine
government, its provinces, municipalities, and instrumentalities, valid
and subsisting at the time of the adoption of the constitution shall be
assumed and paid by the new government.
(8) Provision shall be made for the establishment and maintenance
of an adequate system, of public schools, primarily conducted in the
English language.
(9) Acts affecting currency, coinage, imports, exports, and immigration shall not become law until approved by the President of the
United States.
(10) Foreign affairs shall be under the direct supervision and control of the United States.
(11) All acts passed by the legislature of the Commonwealth of the
Philippine Islands shall be reported to the Congress of the United
States.
(12) The Philippine Islands recognizes the right of the United States
to expropriate the property for public uses, to maintain military and other
reservations and armed forces in the Philippines, and, upon order of
the President, to call into the service of such armed forces all military
forces organized by the Philippine government.
(13) The decisions of the courts of the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands shall be subject to review by the supreme court of the
United States as provided in paragraph (6) of Section 7.
(14) The United States may, by Presidential proclamation, exercise
the right to intervene for the preservation of the government of the
Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands and for the maintenance of
the government as provided in the constitution thereof, and for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty and for the discharge of
government obligations under and in accordance with the provisions of
the constitution.
(15) The authority of the United States high commissioner to the
Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands, as provided
in this act, shall be recognized.
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