The disbursing officer or agent shall render
his accounts of such disbursments in accordance with the rules and
instructions to carry into effect the Executive Order of May 8, 1899,
relative to the military government of the United States in the Island
of Cuba, during the maintenance of such government.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _August 2, 1900._
The Island of Guimaras in the Philippine group is assigned to naval
jurisdiction and control with a view to establishing thereon a naval
base and station upon the strait of Iloilo, opposite the town of that
name.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _August 2, 1900._
The sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or so much thereof as may be
necessary, is hereby allotted from the Emergency Fund, Navy Department,
1901, for the purpose of meeting the expenses of a survey of the Island
of Guimaras in sufficient detail to fix the place of the coal wharf and
shed, of the dry dock, and of the fleet anchorages, and to appraise the
land of private ownership, which need to be condemned for the use of the
government for its uses and for the land defense required.
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