WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., April 23, 1901_.
_To the Secretary of the Treasury_:
SIR:--The sum of five hundred thousand dollars is hereby allotted and
set aside from the appropriation made for the benefit and Government
of Puerto Rico by the act of March 24th, 1900 (31 Stat., p. 51), to be
expended for public and permanent improvements in Puerto Rico, under the
supervision and subject to the approval of the Governor and Executive
Council of the Island.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., April 29, 1901._
In case of the death, resignation, absence or sickness of the Secretary
of the Navy, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of the
Bureau of Navigation, Rear Admiral Charles O'Neil, U.S. Navy and Chief
of the Bureau of Ordnance is, in pursuance of the provisions of Sections
177 and 179 of the Revised Statutes, hereby authorized and directed to
perform the duties of Secretary of the Navy until a successor is
appointed or until such absence or sickness shall cease.
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