The resolution recognised the Ainu people as " an indigenous people with a distinct language, religion and culture ", and rescinded the law passed in 1899.

This period also saw the development of international law, with the first Geneva Conventions establishing laws dealing with humanitarian relief during wartime, and the international Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 governing rules of war and the peaceful settlement of international disputes.

U. S. Federal law approved by the President Harry S. Truman on June 27, 1952 declared all persons born in Puerto Rico on or after January 13, 1941 to be citizens of the U. S. at birth and all persons born in Puerto Rico between April 11, 1899, and January 12, 1941, and meeting certain other technical requirements, and not citizens of the United States under any other Act, were declared to be citizens of the U. S. as of January 13, 1941.

He resigned from the speakership and from his seat in Congress in 1899 to enter private law practice.

On the lawfulness of armed resistance movements in international law, there has been a dispute between states since at least 1899, when the first major codification of the laws of war in the form of a series of international treaties took place.

* John Mercer Langston ( 1829 – 1899 ), abolitionist, activist, educator and politician — first dean of Howard University law school, first president of Virginia State University, in 1888 first black to be elected to the United States Congress from Virginia.

* John Mercer Langston ( 1829 – 1899 ), abolitionist, activist, educator and politician-in 1855 first black person in Ohio elected to public office, first dean of Howard University law school, first president of Virginia State University, in 1888 first black person to be elected to the United States Congress from Virginia.

The case went to the North Dakota Supreme Court, which ruled the law unconstitutional on May 18, 1899.

The annexation remained in effect, however, due to a replacement law approved by the legislature March 9, 1899, in anticipation of the court's decision.

This lawsuit involved a landowner, Henry Schaffner, whose property in Williams County was added to neighboring Mercer County by the 1899 law.

The case went to the North Dakota Supreme Court, which ruled the law unconstitutional on May 18, 1899.

The annexation remained in effect, however, due to a replacement law approved by the legislature March 9, 1899 in anticipation of the court's decision.

* John Mercer Langston ( 1829 – 1899 ), abolitionist, activist, educator and politician – first dean of Howard University law school, first president of Virginia State University, in 1888 first black person to be elected to the United States Congress from Virginia.

In 1899 Quezón cut short his law studies at the University of Santo Tomás in Manila, to participate in the struggle for independence against the United States, led by Emilio Aguinaldo.

The dust cloud concept could not be adequately developed, and the coated bullet / shrapnel concept would violate the Hague Convention of 1899 ( adopted in U. S. law at 32 Stat.

On July 11, 1899, Lay and others were involved in a train robbery near Folsom, New Mexico, which Parker may have planned and may have been directly involved in, which led to a shootout with local law enforcers in which Lay, arguably Parker's best friend and closest confidante, killed Sheriff Edward Farr and posseman Henry Love, leading to his imprisonment for life in the New Mexico State Penitentiary.

Born in Cochabamba, Salamanca studied law, before being elected to Bolivia's Chamber of Deputies in 1899 for the Liberal Party.

Hain's remarks had previously been strongly criticised by the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Sir Declan Morgan though the decision to charge Hain with “ scandalising the court ”, using a law already obsolete in 1899 drew ridicule in Westminster and strong criticism from senior DUP ministers.

Throughout this period, he practised law, from 1899 with future Conservative MLA Frederick C. Jamieson as his partner.

While practicing law in New York, he began lecturing at Columbia Law School in 1899 and joined the faculty as a full professor.

John Ellis Martineau was born in Clay County in western Missouri and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1896 and obtained his law degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1899.

During his term as Chief Justice Griffith drafted Queensland's Criminal Code, the first successful codification anywhere of the entire English criminal law, which was adopted in 1899, and later in Western Australia, Papua New Guinea, substantially in Tasmania, and other imperial territories including Nigeria.

Born in Leipzig in 1870 as the son of Wilhelm Liebknecht and the brother of Karl Liebknecht, Theodor Liebknecht studied law and worked as a lawyer in Berlin from 1899 on, becoming politically active after his brother's murder in January 1919.

* Hague Conventions ( 1899 and 1907 ), among the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in international law

The disastrous 1899 season would actually be a step toward a new future for Cleveland fans the next year.

Smith and the other lesser producers were joined by Cecil Hepworth in 1899, and in a few years he was turning out 100 films a year, with his company becoming the largest on the British scene.

Spain sold the islands to Germany in 1899 under the terms of the German – Spanish Treaty of that year.

World War II brought to Rüsselsheim the only year in the entire history of Opel – 1945 – in which it produced no vehicles at all, since that first Lutzmann-authored Opel was made in 1899.

One year after the United States invasion of the island, Dr. José Celso Barbosa embraced the idea of annexation as a U. S. state as a solution to the colonial situation and founded the Republican Party in 1899.

The generally upbeat and optimistic mood of paintings in this period is reminiscent of the 1899 – 1901 period ( i. e. just prior to the Blue Period ) and 1904 can be considered a transition year between the two periods.

Kruger won another presidential election in 1898, but the following year British forces were gathering on the borders of the Boer Republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State and fearing Britain's imminent annexation, the Boers launched a preemptive strike against the nearby British colonies in 1899, a strike which became the Second Boer War.

Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX ) was a common year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar.

There is also information on size of the company from 1899 police report investigating child labor complaints ( the company had 72 employees that year ).

Definite proof that the modern type of paper clip was well known in 1899 at the latest, is the patent granted to William Middlebrook of Waterbury, Connecticut on April 27 of that year for a " Machine for making wire paper clips.

However, the first motorized ambulance was brought into service in the last year of the 19th century, with the Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, taking delivery of the first automobile ambulance, donated by 500 prominent local businessmen, in February 1899.

In 1899, sales hit 300 ; total car sales for all of France that year were 1200.

:: This article covers in brief the history of California until the year 1899 ; for later events, see History of California 1900 to present.

They only remained at this ground for a year as in April 1899, 14, 000 fans turned up to watch Spurs play Woolwich Arsenal.

In 1899, after a year of unhappy, initial employment at the College for Women of Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, he became an instructor in psychology at Teachers College at Columbia University, where he remained for the rest of his career, studying human learning, education, and mental testing.

It is the U. S. state capital whose namesake was most recently alive: Joe Juneau died in 1899, a year after Otto von Bismarck ( North Dakota ).

It published its results early the next year ,( 65 ) but nothing ever came of the effort, because in 1899, the Ohio Falls Car Manufacturing Company was one of the 13 independent car builders that merged to form the American Car & foundry Company.

.. the first electric lights were turned on in the old Methodist Church in the year 1899?

Chase was re-elected to this position in 1899 but defeated the following year.

The Hampton Fire Company began in 1899 as the Junction Fire Company following the completion of the borough wide water system, including hydrants, in that same year.

Madison annexed additional portions of Chatham Township in 1891, and annexed more each year from 1894 – 1898, followed finally, by an exchange of some lands in 1899 with Chatham Township.

Madison annexed additional portions of Chatham Township in 1891, and again each year from 1894 – 1898, which was followed by an exchange of certain lands in 1899 with Chatham Township.

The work was first performed at the Teatro Regio di Parma that same year and was mounted at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 1899.