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Colonial law of 1908 (Charter of the Belgian Congo)

The Belgian law governing the Congo once Belgium took it over; the Chamber adopted it in August 1908.

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1908

Article 1 of the bill the Chamber passed reads: the Belgian Kongo has a legal status distinct from that of the mother country.

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  1. 1908 Colonial law of 1908 (Charter of the Belgian Congo)
  2. Aug 1908 Chamber of Representatives of Belgium signed into law Colonial law of 1908 (Charter of the Belgian Congo)
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  1. Minister Wilson to the Secretary of State, Brussels, 21 August 1908, with the colonial law (Foreign Relations of the United States, 1908, doc. 555), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 21 Aug 1908. Primary record
    I have the honor to transmit herewith copy and translation of the colonial law just adopted by the Belgian Chamber of Representatives
    At the time of the adoption of the colonial law the treaty of annexation was also passed
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