Report of E.S. Otis, U.S. Volunteers, on Military Operations and Civil Affairs in the Philippine Islands, 18991899 - 165 pages |
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ADJUTANT-GENERAL Aguinaldo American ammunition arrived artillery attack authorities Bacoor Baliuag Batangas battalion Bayambang Bayonbong brigade Brigadier-General Cabanatuan Calamba Calumpit Captain captured Carranglan casualties Cavite Cebu Chief of Staff civil coast Colonel column command companies court Dagupan December Department detachment directed district duty EIGHTH ARMY CORPS enemy Filipino force Fourth Cavalry guns headquarters Iloilo Infantry inhabitants instructions insurgents January Jolo killed Laguna de Bay Lawton Lieutenant Luzon Macabebe scouts Macabebes MACARTHUR Majayjay Major-General Malolos Manila March miles military governor morning mountains municipal native November November 22 occupied officers Panay party Philippine Islands port prisoners province received regiment residents rifles river road San Fabian San Fernando San Isidro San Jose San Miguel Santo Tomás SCHWAN scouts sent Silang Spain Spanish supplies Tagalo Tarlac Tayug telegraphed tion to-day to-morrow town troops United vessels Vigan Volunteers Wheaton wounded yesterday
Popular passages
Page 270 - The officer may break open any outer or inner door or window of a house, or any part of a house, or anything therein, to execute the warrant, if, after notice of his authority and purpose, he is refused admittance.
Page 262 - When an offense involves the commission of, or an attempt to commit, a private injury, and is described with sufficient certainty in other respects to identify the act, an erroneous allegation as to the person injured, or intended to be injured, is not material.
Page 256 - A subsequent marriage contracted by any person during the life of a former husband or wife of such person, with any person other than such former husband or wife is illegal and void from the beginning, unless: 1.
Page 284 - I recognize and accept the supreme authority of the United States of America in these islands and will maintain true faith and allegiance thereto; that I will obey the laws, legal orders, and decrees promulgated by its duly constituted authorities; that I impose upon myself this obligation voluntarily, without mental reservation or purpose of evasion. So help me God.
Page 270 - A warrant shall issue only on affidavit sworn to before the judge or commissioner and establishing the grounds for issuing the warrant. If the judge or commissioner is satisfied that grounds for the application exist or that there is probable cause to believe that they exist, he shall issue a warrant identifying the property and naming or describing the person or place to be searched.
Page 270 - It may be issued upon either of- the following grounds : ' 1. When the property was stolen or embezzled ; in which case, it may be taken, on the warrant, from any house or other place in which it is concealed, or from the possession of the person by whom it was stolen or embezzled, or of any other person in whose possession it may be ; 2. When it was used as the means of committing a, felony...
Page 270 - CD (or in the house situated , describing it or any other place to be searched, with reasonable particularity, as the case may be) for the following property: (describing it with reasonable particularity); and if you find the same or any part thereof, to bring it forthwith before me at (stating the place). Given under my hand, and dated this day of , AD eighteen [nineteen] . EF, justice of the peace (or as the case may be).
Page 257 - A marriage may be annulled for any of the following causes, existing at the time of the marriage: 1. That the party in whose behalf It is sought to have the marriage annulled was under the age of legal consent...
Page 268 - ... will appear and answer the charge above mentioned, in whatever court it may be prosecuted, and will at all times hold himself amenable to the orders and process of the court...
Page 357 - The United States will, for the term of ten years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, admit Spanish ships and merchandise to the ports of the Philippine Islands on the same terms as ships and merchandise of the United States.