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[SEAL.]
In witness whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be
hereunto affixed.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., May 23, 1899_.
_To the Heads of the Executive Departments and the Public Printer_:
It is hereby ordered that upon Wednesday, the 24th instant, the
employees of the executive departments and the government printing
office shall be excused from duty at 12:00 o'clock noon to enable them
to participate in the Civic parade and other exercises of the Peace
Jubilee on that day.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _June 10, 1899._
Consular court fees and fines imposed and collected by consular courts
are hereby declared to be official. They are to be used to defer the
expenses of consular courts, and detailed accounts of receipts and
expenditures are to be rendered to the Secretary of State on the 30th of
June of each year. Any surplus remaining at the end of the year after
the expenses of the courts have been paid is to be turned into the
Treasury.
The portions of the Executive Order of July 29, 1897, and the consular
regulations in conflict with this order are hereby amended.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., June 16, 1899._
Officers of the Customs in the Islands of Cuba may authorize the
clearance under a permit for foreign ports, ports of the United States
of vessels owned prior to June 1st, 1899 by residents of Cuba and owned
at the time of clearance by citizens of Cuba under the signal and coast
permit of Cuba. Such vessels may carry the American flag above the
distinctive signal for the purpose of indicating that the Government of
the United States pursuant to treaty has assumed and will discharge the
obligations that may under International law result from the fact of the
occupation of Cuba for the protection of life and property.
In granting such clearance under a permit vessels of the customs will
advise masters or owners that clearance under permit and the use of the
flag of the United States hereby authorized do not confer upon such
vessels any rights and privileges which are conferred upon vessels of
the United States by the status of treaties of the United States. The
rights and privileges of such a vessel as to enter clearance dues,
charges, etc., in foreign ports and in ports of the United States will
be determined by the laws of the country in which the port may be
situated.
Such vessel upon entering into a port of the United States would be
subject to the provisions of Sections 2497, 4219 and 4225 of the Revised
Statutes and such other laws as may be applicable.
The form and manner of the issuance of permits provided for in this
paragraph shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War.
Tariff Circular No. 71, dated Washington, May 25th, 1899, is hereby
rescinded.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., June 27, 1899._
By virtue of the authority vested in me as Commander-in-Chief of the
Army and Navy, I hereby order and direct that during the maintenance of
the Military Government of the United States in the Island of Cuba and
all islands of the West Indies west of the 74th degree, west longitude,
evacuated by Spain, there are hereby created and shall be maintained, in
addition to the office created by executive order of May 8, 1899, the
office of Assistant Auditor for auditing the accounts of the departments
of Internal Revenue and one Assistant Treasurer in the office of the
Treasurer of the islands, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of
War.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., July 3, 1899._
1. Officers of the Customs in the Island of Puerto Rico, ceded to the
United States by Spain, may issue a certificate of protection, entitling
a vessel to which it is issued to the protection and flag of the United
States on the high seas and in all ports, if the vessel is owned by:
_a_. A citizen of the United States residing in Puerto Rico.
_b_. A native inhabitant of Puerto Rico upon taking oath of
allegiance to the United States.
_c_. Resident of Puerto Rico before April 11, 1899, hitherto a
subject of Spain, upon abjuring his allegiance to the crown of Spain and
taking the oath of allegiance to the United States.
2. The master and the watch officers of a vessel to which a certificate
of protection is issued shall be citizens of the United States or shall
take the oath of allegiance to the United States, providing that the
general commanding the forces of the United States in Puerto Rico may in
his discretion in special cases waive these requirements in whole or in
part.
3. Such certificate of protection shall entitle vessel to the same
privileges and subject it to the same disabilities as are prescribed in
Article XX of the Consular Regulations of 1896 for American or foreign
built vessels transferred abroad to citizens of the United States.
4. The form and manner of the issue of certificates of protection
provided for in this order shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., July 3, 1899._
1. Officers of the Customs in the Philippine Islands, ceded to the
United States by Spain, may issue a certificate of protection entitling
the vessel to which it is issued to the protection and flag of the United
States on the High Seas and in all ports, if the vessel is owned by:
_a_. A citizen of the United States residing in the Philippine Islands.
_b_. A native inhabitant of the Philippine Islands upon taking the
oath of allegiance to the United States.
_c_. Residents of the Philippine Islands before April 11th, 1899
hitherto a subject of Spain, upon abjuring his allegiance to the Crown
of Spain and taking the oath of allegiance to the United States.
2. The master and watch officer of a vessel to which a certificate of
Protection is issued shall be citizens of the United States or shall
take the oath of allegiance to the United States, providing that the
General commanding the forces of the United States in Philippine Islands
may, in his discretion in special cases, waive this requirement in whole
or in part.
3. Such certificate of protection shall entitle the vessel to the same
privileges and subject it to the same disabilities as are prescribed in
Article XX of the Consular Regulations of 1896 for American or foreign
vessels transferred abroad to citizens of the United States.
4. The form and manner of the issue of certificates of protection
provided for in this order shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., July 24, 1899_.
_To the Secretary of the Treasury_:
SIR:--It is provided in the "Act making appropriation for sundry civil
expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1900,
and for other purposes" that "The President of the United States is
hereby authorized in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera,
yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague or Chinese plague or black
death to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and
reappropriated by the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, approved July 1st,
1898, and the act making appropriation to supply discrepancies in the
appropriations approved July 7th, 1898, and one hundred thousand dollars
($100,000.00) in addition thereto or so much thereof as may be necessary
in the aid of State and local boards or otherwise in his discretion
in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same and in such
emergencies in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then
in force."
You are hereby directed to take charge of this expenditure for the
purpose of enforcing the above provisions, and you are directed to
employ for that purpose the Marine Hospital Service and to provide such
other means as are necessary for the purpose aforesaid and to carry out
such rules and regulations as may have been or shall be made by you in
conformity therewith.
You will carefully supervise and examine all expenditures made in
executing the aforesaid law and submit to me from time to time reports
of such expenditures and statements of the work done.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., August 17, 1899_.
_To the People of Cuba_:
The disorganized condition of your island, resulting from the war
and the absence of any generally recognized authority aside from the
temporary Military Control of the United States, has made it necessary
that the United States should follow the restoration of order and
peaceful industry by giving its assistance and supervision to the
successive steps by which you will proceed to the establishment of an
effective system of self-government.
As a preliminary step in the performance of this duty I have directed
that a census of the people of Cuba be taken, and have appointed
competent and disinterested citizens of Cuba as Enumerators and
Supervisors.
It is important for the proper arrangement of your new Government that
the information sought shall be fully and accurately given and I request
that by every means in your power you aid the officers appointed in the
performance of their duties.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., September 2, 1899_.
_To the Secretary of the Treasury_:
SIR:--You are directed to transfer an additional sum of five thousand
dollars ($5,000.00) from the appropriation made by the Joint Resolution
approved July 7, 1898, entitled, "Joint Resolution to provide for the
annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States," to be expended
at the discretion of the Executive and for the purpose of carrying that
Joint Resolution into effect for the expenditure and enforcement of the
Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Hawaiian Islands under the clause in said
Resolution restricting the emigration of the Chinese to the Islands.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., September 11, 1899._
Hon. JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State_
You will notify the President of Hawaii that the Government of Hawaii
has no power to make any sale or dispose of the public lands in the
Islands. That all proceedings taken or pending for such sale or
disposition should be discontinued and that if any sales or agreements
for sale have been made since the adoption of the Resolution of
Annexation the purchasers should be notified that the same are null and
void and any consideration paid to the legal authorities on account
thereof should be refunded.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., September 18, 1899._
In the exercise of the power conferred upon me by the Joint Resolution
of Congress, approved by the President on July 7th, 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 issue of Registers to vessels by the Authorities of Hawaii entitling
such vessels to all the rights and privileges of Hawaiian vessels in the
ports of Nations or upon the High Seas, shall hereafter cease.
[SEAL.]
In witness whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be
hereunto affixed.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., September 29, 1899._
It is hereby ordered that the several Executive Departments, the
Government Printing Office and the Navy Yard and Station at Washington
be closed on Tuesday, October 3rd, to enable the employees to
participate in the ceremonies attending the Reception of Admiral Dewey,
United States Navy, and the presentation of the Sword of Honor to him,
as authorized by a Joint Resolution of Congress, approved June 3rd,
1899.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., November 4, 1899._
In furtherance of interchange between those absent in the service of
their country and their families at home, it is hereby ordered that
packages and parcels of mailable matter and containing only articles
desired as gifts and souvenirs, and so marked, and with no commercial
purpose, and not for sale, from Officers, Soldiers and Sailors serving
in the Army and Navy and other persons employed in the Civil Service of
the United States, in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippine Islands and
Cuba addressed to members of their families in the United States, or
packages of the same personal character addressed from the United States
to Officers, Soldiers, Sailors and others in the Public Service in said
Islands may be sent through the mails, subject only to the domestic
postal regulations of the United States.
The details of the execution of this order with all necessary safeguards
will devolve on the Secretary of War and Postmaster-General.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., November 10, 1899._
In accordance with the law that prescribes that the Army and Navy
General Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., "shall be subject to such rules,
regulations, and restrictions as shall be provided by the President of
the United States," the following amendment of the rules and regulations
provided for its government in Executive Order of August 25, 1892, is
authorized:
Enlisted men on the active list while under treatment or on duty in the
hospital shall have the usual allowance of rations commuted at the rate
of not to exceed forty cents (40 c.) per day for enlisted men in the army
and thirty cents (30 c.) per day for enlisted men in the navy, to be paid
to the Senior Medical Officer by the proper officers of the War and Navy
Departments upon the receipt of monthly statements of accounts duly
certified by the Surgeon-General of the Army.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 1, 1899_.
_To all to whom these presents shall come; greeting_:
Know ye, that reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity,
prudence, and ability of John Hay, Secretary of State of the United
States, I have invested him with full and all manner of power and
authority, for me and in the name of the United States, to meet and
confer with any person or persons duly authorized by the Government of
his Imperial Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia, and the
Government of her Britannic Majesty being entrusted with like power and
authority, and with them to negotiate, conclude, and sign a convention
to adjust amicably the questions which have arisen between the three
Governments in respect to the Samoan group of islands, the same to be
transmitted to the President of the United States for his ratification
by and with the advice and consent of the Cabinet thereof.
In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be
hereunto affixed.
[SEAL.]
Given under my hand at the city of Washington, the 1st day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1899, and of the Independence of the United
States the one hundred and twenty-third.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State._
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., January 3, 1900._
To prevent the introduction of epidemic diseases, it is ordered that
provisions of the act of Congress, approved February 15, 1893, entitled,
"An act granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional
duties upon the Marine Hospital Service," and all rules and regulations
heretofore or hereafter prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury
under that act are to be given full force and effect in the Philippine
Islands in so far as they are applicable, and the following additional
rules and regulations are hereby promulgated:
The examination in ports of the Philippine Islands of incoming and
outgoing vessels, and the necessary surveillance over their sanitary
condition as well as of cargo, officers, crew and all personal effects
is vested in and will be conducted by the Marine Hospital Service, and
Medical Officers of that service will be detailed by the Secretary of
the Treasury as Quarantine Officers at Ports of Manila and Iloilo
immediately and at other ports in the Philippine Islands as soon as
practicable or necessary.
Quarantine Officers shall have authority over incoming vessels, their
wharfage and anchorage in so far as it is necessary for the proper
enforcement of the quarantine regulations, including vessels of the Army
Transport Service and non-combatant vessels of the Navy.
Collectors of Customs at ports of entry will not permit entry without
quarantine certificates.
Any vessel leaving any port in the Philippine Islands for any port in
the United States or its Dependencies shall obtain a bill of health from
the quarantine officer when such officer is on duty, said bill of health
to correspond to the Consular Bill of Health now required by Treasury
Regulations, and the bill of health shall not be given to the outgoing
vessel unless all quarantine regulations have been complied with. At
ports where no medical officer is detailed, bills of health will be
signed by the Collector of Customs or other officers to whom such duty
has been regularly delegated. Special regulations relating to the bills
of health to be obtained by vessels of the United States Navy will be
promulgated by the Secretary of the Treasury.
The Medical Officer detailed under this order as Quarantine Officer
at the Port of Manila shall be the Chief Quarantine Officer for the
Philippine Islands. It shall be his duty to make appointments and
removals from the service in the Philippines (subject to the approval
of the Secretary of the Treasury), and shall authorize necessary
expenditures under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury
may prescribe.
The regulations for the government of the Marine Hospital Service shall,
so far as practicable, have force and effect in the management of the
Quarantine service in the Philippine Islands.
The expenses of the Quarantine service will be charged against the
revenues of the islands, and a sum not to exceed three hundred thousand
dollars ($300,000.00) in each fiscal year is hereby set aside from the
revenues collected in said islands for this purpose. The expenses shall
be paid therefrom upon a certificate of a detailed quarantine officer
and upon the approval of the Chief Officer for the Philippine Islands.
The Chief Quarantine Officer shall render a report on the last day of
each month to the supervising Surgeon General in the Marine Hospital
Service, who will issue to him necessary instructions.
The Epidemic Fund will be reimbursed from the revenues of the islands
for the cost of this undertaking, plans and materials ordered to be
forwarded to the islands prior to the date of this order.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., January 5, 1900._
By virtue of the authority vested in me by joint resolution of the
Senate and House of Representatives of the United States accepting and
confirming the cession of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States, it
is hereby ordered and directed that out of the Government Reservation
lying to the eastward of the Puowaina or Ruralhouse Hill in the Island
of Ouhu, Hawaiian Islands, seven acres, more or less as hereinafter
described and located, shall be set apart for the use of the United
States Treasury Department as a site for a United States Marine Hospital
for the port of Honolulu. This site shall consist of the seven acres
situated north of the Makiki cemetery and bounded on the north and
east by the sinuosities of the Punch Bowl road; on the south by a
line projecting eastward from the powder magazine to intersect Punch
Bowl road, this line being the southern boundary of the Government
Reservation at that point; and on the west by an arbitrary north and
south line drawn so as to leave seven (7) acres within this designated
tract.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., January 8, 1900._
It is hereby ordered that the tract of country lying west of the Navajo
and Moqui Reservations, in the Territory of Arizona, embraced within the
following described boundaries, viz: Beginning at the southwest corner
of the Moqui Reservation and running due west to the Little Colorado
River, thence down that stream to the Grand Canyon Forest Reservation,
thence north on the line of that reserve to the northeast corner
thereof, thence west to the Colorado River, thence up that stream to the
Navajo Indian Reservation, be and the same is hereby withdrawn from sale
and settlement until further order.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., January 19, 1900._
In accordance with the law that prescribes that the Army and Navy
General Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., shall be subject to such rules,
regulations and restrictions as shall be provided by the President of
the United States the following amendment of the rules and regulations
providing for its Government and Executive Order of August 25th, 1892
is authorized: Enlisted men of the Army and Navy and Marine Corps on
the retired list and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the
Regular and Volunteer Army and Navy of the United States, shall pay for
substance at the rate of 40 cents per day.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., February 12, 1900._
Authority is hereby granted for the transfer of the sum of four hundred
thousand, seven hundred and seventy-six dollars and sixty-five cents
($400,776.65) from the appropriation "Emergency Fund, War Department"
act of March 13th, 1899, to the appropriation "Substance of the Army
1900" in accordance with the request of the Acting Commissary General of
Subsistence which is approved by the Secretary of War.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 7, 1900._
It is hereby ordered that the Executive Order of June 8, 1866, reserving
for light-house purposes among other lands a tract described as "twenty
(20) acres at a cape about midway between Destruction Island and
Flattery Rocks, falling within unsurveyed lands as laid down in blue
shade upon diagram number 3 herewith," in the Territory of Washington,
be, and the same is, hereby canceled so far as it relates to the above
described tract, and it is hereby ordered that in lieu thereof, lot one
(1) section six (6), township twenty-eight (28) north, range fifteen
(15) west, Willamette Meridian, Washington, containing, according to the
official plat on file in the General Land Office, approved May 29, 1882,
3.25 acres, be, and it is, hereby reserved for light-house purposes.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 20, 1900._
It is hereby ordered that the Executive Order of September 11, 1854,
reserving for light-house purposes among other lands the tract at Cape
Shoalwater, Territory of Washington, shaded blue on the diagram
accompanying the order, be, and it is, hereby canceled so far as it
relates to the tract above described.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 21, 1900._
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to transfer to the
Secretary of War for use in the transport service of the War Department
the vessels _Badger_ and _Resolute_, purchased by the Navy Department
from the funds allotted from the emergency appropriation, national
defense, act of March 8, 1898, at a cost of $842,000, these vessels
being no longer required in the service of the navy.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 1, 1900._
The Collector of Customs of Puerto Rico will pay over to the Treasurer
of Puerto Rico the net proceeds of the collections made by him under
the provisions of the act of Congress approved April 12, 1900, entitled
"An act temporarily to provide revenues and a Civil Government for
Puerto Rico, and for other purposes," under such regulations as the
Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 14, 1900._
It is hereby ordered that the NW 1/4 of section 15, in township 23 north,
of range 13 west, Gila and Salt River Base, and principal meridian in
Arizona, conveyed to the United States by quit claim deed of the Santa
Fe Pacific Railroad Company, dated September 12, 1899, be and the same
is hereby set apart, subject to certain exceptions, reservations, and
conditions made by said company, as set forth in the deed aforesaid, for
Indian school purposes, the Hualapai Indians as an addition to section
10 of the township and range above mentioned, set aside by executive
order dated December 22, 1898, and designated therein as the "Hualapai
Indian School Reserve."
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 26, 1900._
It is hereby ordered that Section 29, Section 30; the N 1/2, the SW 1/4,
the N 1/2 of the SE 1/4, and the SE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 31, and
Section 32, Township 13, south, Range one (1) east, Montana, be and they
are hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the United States Fish
Commission of Fish and Fisheries for the purposes of a fish cultural
station.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 26, 1900._
Under authority of Section 3648 of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, permission is hereby given that needful advances of money be
made of moneys appropriated for the light-house establishment to the
officers of the Army and Navy acting as Engineers or Inspectors, as
Assistants to Engineers or Inspectors of the third light-house district
for disbursement in carrying on the Puerto Rican light-house service.
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