W.H.
Taft, President of the said Commission is hereby appointed Civil
Governor of the Philippine Islands. Such executive authority will be
exercised under and in conformity to the instructions to the Philippine
Commissioners dated April 7th, 1900, and subject to the approval and
control of the Secretary of War of the United States. The municipal
and Provincial Civil Governments will then, or shall hereafter be
established in said Islands and all persons performing duties pertaining
to the offices of Civil Government in said Islands will, in respect of
such duties report to the said Civil Government. The power to appoint
Civil Officers, heretofore vested in the Philippine Commission or in
the Military Government will be exercised by the Civil Governor with
the advice and consent of the Commissioners.
The Military Governor of the Philippines is hereby relieved from the
performance on and after the said fourth day of July of the civil duties
hereinbefore described, but his authority will continue to be exercised
as heretofore in those districts in which insurrection against the
authority of the United States continues to exist or in which public
order is not sufficiently restored to enable the Provincial Civil
Government to be established under the instructions to the Commission
dated April 7th, 1900.
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