Article I The National Territory

Article I 
The National Territory

 

Summary: Article I states the extent of the national territory of the Philippines. Presented in general terms, this article mentions the treaties concluded between the United States and Spain and that of Great Britain as reference for the boundaries of the Philippine Territory. The Philippine territory also include all other territories which the Philippines exercises jurisdiction as part of the national territory.

 

SECTION 1. The Philippines comprises all the territory ceded to the United States by the treaty of Paris concluded between the United States and Spain on the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the limit of which are set forth in Article III of said treaty, together with all the islands embraced in the treaty concluded at Washington, between the United States and Spain on the seventh day of November, nineteen hundred, and the treaty concluded between the United States and Great Britain on the second day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty, and all territory over which the present Government of the Philippine Islands exercises jurisdiction.