4/20/2021 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly [3] SECTION 4. That all inhabitants of the Philippine Islands continuing to reside therein who were Spanish subjects on the eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and ninetynine 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. [4] Roa vs. Collector of Customs, supra; Lim Teco vs. Collector, 24 Phil 84 (1913); United States vs. Lim Bin, 36 Phil 924 (1917). [5] Roa vs. Collector of Customs, Ibid. [6] 31 SCRA 413 (1970). [7] Member of the HRET. [8] Chairman, Ibid. [9] This refers to the 1935 Constitution as adopted by the Philippine Constitutional Convention on February 8, 1935, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 23, 1935 and ratified by Filipino voters in a plebiscite held on May 14, 1935 [10] Section 3, Article VII, 1935 Constitution. [11] Section 2, Article VI, Ibid. [12] The 1935 Constitution was amended by Resolution Numbered Seventy-three, adopted by the Second National Assembly on the 11th day of April 1940, and approved by the President of the United States on December 2, 1940. [13] Sections 4 and 7, Article VI, 1935 Constitution, as amended. [14] Sections 6 and 8, Article VIII, Ibid. [15] This refers to the 1973 Constitution as approved by the Filipino people in a referendum held between January 10, 1973 and January 15, 1973 and which became effective on January 17, 1973. [16] Section 2, Article VII; Section 4, Article VIII; Sections 3 and 4, Article IX; Section 3 (1) and (2), Article X; Section 1(1) Article XII-B, Section 1(1), Article XII-C; Section 1 (1) Article XII-D, 1973 Constitution. [17] Section 8, Article XI; and Section 17(2), Article XIII, 1987 Constitution. https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/58613 24/25