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Messages and Papers of William McKinley V.2. by William McKinley

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Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which
may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or
covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States
Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant
to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of
record has not expired: _Provided_, that this exception shall not
continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entry-man,
settler, or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the
entry, filing, or settlement was made.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement
upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.

That the lands hereby restored to the public domain shall be open to
settlement from date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing,
or selection until after ninety days' notice by such publication as the
Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this 15th day of July, A.D. 1901, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.

[SEAL.]

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State_.



[CESSATION OF TARIFF--PORTO RICO.]

Whereas, by an act of Congress, approved April 12, 1900, entitled
"an Act Temporarily to Provide Revenues and a Civil Government for
Porto Rico and for other Purposes," it was provided that, "whenever
the legislative assembly of Porto Rico shall have enacted and put into
operation a system of local taxation to meet the necessities of the
government of Porto Rico, by this act established, and shall by resolution
duly passed so notify the President, he shall make proclamation thereof,
and thereupon all tariff duties on merchandise and articles going into
Porto Rico from the United States or coming into the United States
from Porto Rico shall cease, and from and after such date all such
merchandise and articles shall be entered at the several ports of
entry free of duty;" and

Whereas by the same act it was provided, "that as soon as a civil
government for Porto Rico shall have been organized in accordance with
the provisions of this act, and notice thereof shall have been given to
the President, he shall make proclamation thereof, and thereafter all
collections of duties and taxes in Porto Rico under the provisions of
this act shall be paid into the treasury of Porto Rico, to be expended
as required by law for the government and benefit thereof, instead of
being paid into the Treasury of the United States;" and

Whereas the legislative assembly of Porto Rico has enacted and put into
operation a system of local taxation to meet the necessities of the
government of Porto Rico as aforesaid, and has passed and caused to be
communicated to me the following resolution:

A Joint Resolution of the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico, notifying
the President of the United States that the Legislative Assembly of
Porto Rico has enacted and put into operation a system of local taxation
to meet the necessities of the Government of Porto Rico, established by
act of Congress, entitled "An act temporarily to provide revenues and a
Civil Government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes," duly approved
April 12th, 1900:

_Be it Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico_:

Whereas: A civil government for Porto Rico has been fully and completely
organized in accordance with the provisions of an act of Congress
entitled "An act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government
for Porto Rico, and for other purposes," duly approved April 12th, 1900,
and:

Whereas: It was provided by the terms of said act of Congress, that
whenever the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico shall have enacted and
put into operation a system of local taxation to meet the necessities
of the Government of Porto Rico, by the aforesaid act established, and
shall by resolution duly passed so notify the President, he shall make
proclamation thereof, and thereupon all tariff duties on merchandise and
articles going into Porto Rico from the United States, or coming into
the United States from Porto Rico shall cease, and from and after such
date all such merchandise and articles shall be entered at the several
ports of entry free of duty:

Now therefore: The Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico in extraordinary
session duly called by the Governor and held at San Juan, the Capital,
on July 4th, A.D. 1901, acting pursuant to the authority and power in
it vested by the provisions of the said act of Congress above referred
to, does hereby notify the President of the United States that by
virtue of an act of the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico, entitled,
"An act to provide revenue for the people of Porto Rico, and for other
purposes," duly approved January 31st, A.D. 1901, and of other acts
of the Legislative Assembly duly enacted at the first session of the
Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico, duly held at San Juan, Porto Rico,
commencing December 3rd, 1900, and ending January 31st, A.D. 1901, it
has enacted and put into operation a system of local taxation to meet
the necessities of the Government of Porto Rico, by the aforesaid act
of Congress established.

The Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico hereby directs that a copy
of this joint resolution be presented to the President of the United
States, and hereby requests the Governor of Porto Rico to deliver the
same to the President, to the end that proclamation may be made by him
according to the provisions of the said act of Congress, and if it
shall seem wise and proper to the President, that such proclamation may
issue on the 25th day of July, the said day being a legally established
holiday in Porto Rico commemorating the anniversary of the coming of
the American flag to the Island.

WILLIAM H. HUNT,
_President of the Executive Council_.

MAN. F. ROSSY,
_Speaker of the House of Delegates_.

Approved, July 4th, A.D. 1901.

CHAS. H. ALLEN,
_Governor_.


Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, in
pursuance of the provisions of law above quoted, and upon the foregoing
due notification, do hereby issue this my proclamation, and do declare
and make known that a civil government for Porto Rico has been organized
in accordance with the provisions of the said act of Congress;

And I do further declare and make known that the Legislative Assembly of
Porto Rico has enacted and put into operation a system of local taxation
to meet the necessities of the government of Porto Rico.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington this 25th day of July, A.D. 1901, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
DAVID J. HILL,
_Acting Secretary of State._



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress,
approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act
to repeal the timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," "That the
President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and
reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests,
in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or
undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations,
and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the
establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;"

And whereas, the public lands in the State of Utah, within the limits
hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears
that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving
said lands as a public reservation;

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by
virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid
act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby
reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation
all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being
situate in the State of Utah and particularly described as follows,
to wit:

Beginning at the northeast corner of section four (4), township ten (10)
south, range three (3) east, Salt Lake base and Meridian, Utah; thence
westerly along the township line to the northwest corner of section five
(5), township ten (10) south, range two (2) east; thence southerly to
the northeast corner of section nineteen (19), said township; thence
westerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence southerly along
the range line to the southwest corner of township twelve (12) south,
range two (2) east; thence easterly to the southeast corner of said
township; thence northerly to the northwest corner of section thirty
(30), township eleven (11) south, range three (3) east; thence easterly
to the southeast corner of section twenty-one (21), said township;
thence northerly along the section line to the northeast corner of
section four (4), township ten (10) south, range three (3) east, to the
place of beginning.

Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which
may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or
covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States
Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant
to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of
record has not expired: _Provided_, that this exception shall not
continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman,
settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the
entry, filing or settlement was made.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement
upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Payson Forest
Reserve.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington this 3d day of August, A.D. 1901, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
ALVEY A. ADEE,
_Acting Secretary of State._



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas notice has been given me by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Commission, in accordance with the provisions of section 9 of the act
of Congress, approved March 3, 1901, entitled "An act to provide for
celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of the
Louisiana territory by the United States by holding an international
exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of the
soil, mine, forest and sea, in the city of St. Louis, in the State of
Missouri," that provision has been made for grounds and buildings for
the uses provided for in the said act of Congress:

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by
virtue of the authority vested in me by said act, do hereby declare and
proclaim that such International Exhibition will be opened in the city
of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, not later than the first day of
May, 1903, and will be closed not later than the first day of December
thereafter. And in the name of the Government and of the people of the
United States, I do hereby invite all the nations of the earth to take
part in the commemoration of the Purchase of the Louisiana Territory,
an event of great interest to the United States and of abiding effect
on their development, by appointing representatives and sending such
exhibits to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition as will most fitly and
fully illustrate their resources, their industries and their progress
in civilization.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this 20th day of August, A.D. 1901, and
of the Independence of the United States, the one hundred and
twenty-sixth.

[SEAL.]

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State_.




EXECUTIVE ORDERS.


EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 28, 1898._

It is hereby ordered that the following described tract of land situate
on Kadiak Island, District of Alaska, be temporarily reserved and set
apart as an experiment station for the use of the Department of
Agriculture:

Beginning at a point in the easterly boundary line of the property now
occupied by the Russian Greek Church in the village of Kadiak on Kadiak
Island, Alaska; thence southeasterly to the water front on the Bay of
Chiniak; thence following said water front one-half mile northeasterly
to a point; thence northwesterly one-half mile to a point; thence
southwesterly one-half mile to a point; thence southeasterly to a point
of beginning, embracing 160 acres of land, more or less.

Provided that the temporary reservation above described shall not
interfere with any prior rights of the natives or others to land within
said reservation.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 27, 1898._

It is hereby ordered that the following described land situated on the
Yukon River in the District of Alaska, be and here is reserved and set
apart for the uses and purposes of a townsite, said land to be held
subject to the townsite law or laws that are or may become applicable
to the public lands in the District of Alaska, and so long as this
reservation remains in force to be subject to disposition in no other
manner whatever, to wit:

A tract of land commencing at a post on the right or north bank of the
Yukon River, about one-half mile below Mayos Landing, marked U.S.M.R.;
thence north from said post one mile; thence east two miles; thence
south to the bank of the Yukon River; thence southwesterly along the
bank of said river to the place of beginning, containing two square
miles, more or less.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _August 6, 1898._

Paragraph 576 of the Consular Regulations is hereby amended so
as to read as follows:

576. Consular Agents will be governed by the foregoing requirements in
relation to official services and will render their quarterly reports in
accordance with the prescribed forms to the principal Consular Officer
who will transmit the same to the Auditor for the State and other
Departments.

The amounts which may be found due at the Treasury on account of
services rendered to American vessels and seamen will in all cases be
sent by Treasury Warrant to the address of and payable to the order of
the officer entitled thereto.

Forms Nos. 190 and 191 are established in full force and authority as
parts of the Consular Regulations of September 30, 1898.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 31, 1899._

It is hereby ordered that the following described tract of land
situate near the north bank of Cook Inlet, adjoining the town of Kenai
on the north, District of Alaska, be and it is hereby set apart as an
agricultural experiment station, subject to any existing legal rights
thereto, it being more particularly described in the field notes of the
survey thereof, executed by C.C. Georgeson, Special Agent in charge of
investigations, in August, 1898, under the direction of the Secretary
of Agriculture, and shown on his plat of survey, all bearings being
magnetic, to wit:

Beginning at a point located near the Russian Parsonage and Church, from
which the nearest log barn belonging to the parsonage bears S. 68 deg. 50'
E. 65 ft.; the spire of the church bearing S. 8 deg. E. to the southeast
corner of the cemetery fence, bearing north 13 deg. W. 361 ft.; thence N. 9 deg.
W. 5,808 ft. to a point for the northeast corner of the tract; thence S.
9 deg. E. 5,808 feet to a point for the southeast corner of the tract;
thence S. 81 deg. W. 2,400 feet to the place of beginning, containing 320
acres of land, more or less.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 3, 1899._

I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by Sections 3141 and 3142 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States, hereby order:

That the counties of Alger, Baraga, Chippewa, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic,
Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Luce, Mackinac, Marquette, Menominee,
Ontonagon and Schoolcroft, now a part of the First Internal Revenue
Collection District of Michigan be transferred to and made a part of the
Fourth Internal Revenue Collection District of Michigan.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., April 1, 1899._

Under the Provisions of Section 2060, Revised Statutes, the Headquarters
of the new Neech Lake Indian Agency in Minnesota are hereby ordered to
be established on the tracts of land to be reserved for that purpose and
which are known as parts of township 142, range 31 west, 5th Meridian,
as described in the recommendation of the Commission of Indian Affairs,
approved by the Secretary of the Interior.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., April 1, 1899._

It is hereby ordered that the Fort Stanton abandoned military
reservation, New Mexico, containing ten thousand two hundred and forty
(10,240) acres, more or less, with the buildings thereon be, and it is
hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Marine Hospital
Service.

Except that the force and effect of this order shall not apply to any
lands to which, prior to the date hereof, valid claims may have been
attached under the Homestead or Mineral Land Laws.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., April 1, 1899._

The change in location of the Office of the Humboldt Land District in
California from Humboldt to Eureka is hereby ordered, under the
provision of Section 2251 in the Revised Statutes of the United States.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., April 3, 1899._

It is fitting that in behalf of the Nation, tribute of honor be paid to
the memories of the noble men who lost their lives in their country's
service during the late war with Spain.

It is more fitting, inasmuch as in consonance with a spirit of our
free institutions, and in obedience to the most exalted prompting of
patriotism, those who were sent to other shores to do battle for their
country's honor, under their country's flag, went freely from every
quarter of our beloved clime; each soldier, each sailor parting from
home ties and putting behind him private interest in the presence of the
stern emergency of unsought war with an alien foe, was an individual
type of that devotion of the citizen to the State which makes our Nation
strong in unity and action.

Those who died in other lands left in many homes the undying memories
that attend the honored dead of all ages. It was fitting with the advent
of peace, won by their sacrifice, their bodies should be gathered with
tender care and restored to home and country. This has been done with
the dead of Cuba and Puerto Rico. Those of the Philippines still rest
where they fell, watched over by their surviving comrades and mourned
with the love of a grateful nation.

The remains of many brought to our shores have been delivered to their
families for private burial, but for others of the brave officers and
men who perished, there has been reserved interment in the ground sacred
to the soldiers and sailors, and amid tributes of national memories they
have so well deserved.

I therefore order:

That upon the arrival of the cortege at the National Cemetery at
Arlington, all proper military and naval honors be paid to the dead
heroes; that suitable ceremonies shall attend their interment; that the
customary salute of mourning be fired at the cemetery, and that on the
same day at two o'clock P.M., Thursday, the sixth day of April, the
National ensign be displayed at half staff on all public buildings,
forts, camps and public vessels of the United States, and that at twelve
o'clock noon of said day all the Departments of the Government at
Washington shall be closed.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., April 6, 1899._

In accordance with the provision of the Act of Congress approved June 4,
1897 (30 stat., 36), and by virtue of the authority thereby given and
on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, it is hereby
ordered that the east half of the northwest quarter and the west half of
the northeast corner of section twenty (20), township ten (10) south,
range five (5) east, Willamette Meridian, Oregon, with the limits of the
Cascade Range Forest Reservation, be restored to the Public Domain after
sixty days' notice hereof by publication, as required by law, these
tracts having been found better adapted to agricultural than forest
purposes.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., May 6, 1899._

By virtue of the authority vested in me as Commander-in-Chief of the
Army and Navy of the United States, I hereby order and direct that
during the maintenance of the Military Government of the United States
in the Island of Puerto Rico and all Islands in the West Indies, east
of the 74th degree west longitude, evacuated by Spain, there are hereby
created and shall be maintained the offices of Auditor of the Islands,
one Assistant Auditor for auditing the accounts of the Department of
Customs and one Assistant Auditor for auditing the accounts of the
Department of Postoffices who shall be appointed by the Secretary of War
and whose duty shall be to audit all accounts of the Islands.

There is hereby created and shall be maintained the office of Treasurer
of the Islands, which shall be filled by the appointment thereto of an
officer of the regular army of the United States. The Treasurer of the
Islands shall receive and keep all moneys arising from the revenues of
the Islands and shall disburse or transfer the same only upon warrants
issued by the Auditor of the Islands and countersigned by the
Governor-General.

All rules and instructions necessary to carry into effect the provisions
of Executive Orders relating to said Islands shall be issued by the
Secretary of War.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., May 6, 1899._

By virtue of the authority vested in me as Commander-in-Chief of the
Army and Navy of the United States, I hereby order and direct that
during the maintenance of Military Government of the United States in
the Island of Cuba and all Islands in the West Indies, west of the 74th
degree west longitude, evacuated by Spain, there are hereby created and
shall be maintained the offices of the Auditor of the Islands, one
Assistant Auditor for auditing the accounts for the Department of
Customs, and one Assistant Auditor for auditing the accounts of the
Department of Postoffices who shall be appointed by the Secretary of War
and whose duties shall be to audit all accounts of the Islands.

There is hereby created and shall be maintained the office of Treasurer
of the Islands which shall be filled by the appointment thereto of an
officer of the regular army of the United States. The Treasurer of the
Islands shall receive and keep all moneys arising from the revenues of
the Islands and shall disburse or transfer the same only upon warrants
issued by the Auditor of the Islands and countersigned by the
Governor-General.

All rules and instructions necessary to carry into effect the provisions
of Executive Orders relating to said Islands shall be issued by the
Secretary of War.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., May 10, 1899._

In accordance with the provisions of Act of Congress approved June 4th,
1897 (30 Stat. 36), and by virtue of the authority thereby given and on
recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, it is hereby ordered
that Baker Lake and the surrounding lands within half mile of the shore
thereof within the limits of the Washington Forest Reserve, State of
Washington, be and they are hereby withdrawn from the operation of the
proclamation dated February 22nd, 1897, creating such reserve are hereby
reserved and set apart for the use of the United States Commission of
Fish and Fisheries for the purpose of a Fish Cultural station.

Provided, That the Lake and surrounding land above described shall
again become subject to the operation of the proclamation creating the
Washington Forest Reserve whenever the use thereof for fish cultural
purposes shall be abandoned by the United States Commission of Fish and
Fisheries.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 13, 1899._

In the exercise of the power conferred upon me by the joint resolution
of Congress, approved by the President on July 7, 1898, entitled "Joint
Resolution to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United
States" the President of the United States hereby directs that the
General Election provided for by the constitution of the Republic of
Hawaii to be held on the last Wednesday in September next shall not be
held. All elective officers whose terms of office shall expire before
appropriate legislation shall have been enacted by the Congress of the
United States shall be continued in their offices at the pleasure of the
President of the United States.

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