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    trading/shipping port and the capital city. The island's name was changed to Porto Rico by the United States after the Treaty of Paris of 1898. The anglicized...
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  • Look up Porto Rico or Portorico in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Porto Rico is an old variant spelling of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of...
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    Royal Cédula of Graces of 1815, the name of Puerto Rico was translated into English as Porto Rico by the Spanish civil authorities overseeing the Royal...
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    in Puerto Rico at least for a year. It took the group two years to meet these regulations, but in 1902 the First National Bank of Porto Rico was inaugurated...
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    Military Government of Porto Rico (Spanish: Gobierno militar estadounidense de Puerto Rico or Gobierno militar americano de Puerto Rico), was a provisional...
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    The Insular Government of Porto Rico (Spanish: Gobierno Insular de Puerto Rico), known as the Insular Government of Puerto Rico after May 17, 1932, was...
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    the creation of the first body of native troops in Puerto Rico. On 30 June 1901, the "Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry" was organized. On 1 July...
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  • Argued: January 8–11, 1901; Decided: May 27, 1901 Huus v. New York and Porto Rico Steamship Co., 182 U.S. 392 (1901); Argued: January 11, 14, 1901; Decided:...
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    South Puerto Rico Sugar Company (1967), a holding company in Jersey City, New Jersey, with a principal subsidiary, called South Porto Rico Sugar Company...
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  • Balzac v. Porto Rico, 258 U.S. 298 (1922), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that certain provisions of the U.S. Constitution...
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