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Show U. S. Territories, Possessions Difficult to Define It is difficult to define satisfac- ! torily the difference between a territory ter-ritory and a possession of the United States. Alaska and Hawaii are, according ac-cording to an official in the division of territories and island possessions, full fledged territories of the United States. Puerto Rico is also a territory, ter-ritory, but its finances are handled in a slightly different way. In Alaska Alas-ka and Hawaii all of the internal revenue is collected and paid into the United States treasury and appropriations ap-propriations made therefrom. In ternal revenue of Puerto Rico is collected and paid into a separate fund. Under the Securities act the term "territory" means Alaska, Hawaii, Ha-waii, the Philippine islands, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, the Virgin islands and insular possessions of the United States. The Canal Zone is administered by the war department. depart-ment. Several of the other islands is-lands are under the jurisdiction of the navy department The District of Columbia is part of the United States and is not territory but a district |