as civil governor of the Philippine Islands whenever the civil governor is incapacitated by illness, or certifies that his temporary absence from the seat of government will make it necessary for the vice governor to exercise such powers and duties. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Land on Culebra Island placed under the control of the Navy Department. WHITE HOUSE, December 17, 1901. Such public lands as may exist on Culebra Island between parallels of 18° 15' and 18° 23′ North latitude, and between the meridians of 65° 10′ and 65° 25' West longitude are hereby placed under the jurisdiction and control of the Navy Department. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Transfer of control and government of Island of Cuba. WHITE HOUSE, Washington, D. C., May 10, 1902. To the President and Congress of the Republic of Cuba. SIRS: On the 20th of this month the military governor of Cuba will, by my direction, transfer to you the control and government of the island of Cuba, to be thenceforth exercised under the provisions of the constitution adopted by your constitutional convention as on that day promulgated; and he will thereupon declare the occupation of Cuba by the United States to be at an end. At the same time I desire to express to you the sincere friendship and good wishes of the United States, and our most earnest hopes for the stability and success of your Government, for the blessings of peace, justice, prosperity and ordered freedom among your people, and for enduring friendship between the Republic of the United States and the Republic of Cuba. [SEAL.] THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States. HEADQUARTERS MILITARY GOVERNOR ISLAND OF CUBA, To the President and Congress of the Republic of Cuba. SIRS: Under the direction of the President of the United States, I now transfer to you as the duly elected representatives of the people of Cuba the government and control of the island, to be held and exercised by you, under the provisions of the constitution of the Republic of Cuba, heretofore adopted by the constitutional convention and this day promulgated; and I hereby declare the occupation of Cuba by the United States and the military government of the island to be ended. This transfer of government and control is upon the express condition, and the Government of the United States will understand, that by the acceptance thereof you do now, pursuant to the provisions of the said constitution, assume and undertake all and several the obligations assumed by the United States with respect to Cuba by the treaty between the United States of America and her Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain, signed at Paris on the 10th day of December, 1898. All money obligations of the military government down to this date have been paid as far as practicable. The public civil funds derived from the revenues of Cuba transferred to you this date, amounting to $689,191.02 are transferred subject to such claims and obligations properly payable out of the revenues of the island as may remain. The sum of $100,000 has been reserved from the transfer of funds, to defray anticipated expenses of accounting, reporting and winding up the affairs of the military government, after which any unexpended balance of said sum will be paid into the treasury of the island. The plans already devised for the sanitation of the cities of the island and to prevent a recurrence of epidemic and infectious diseases, to which the Gov ernment of the United States understands that the provisions of the constitution contained in the fifth article of the appendix applies, are as follows: (1) A plan for the sewering and paving of the city of Havana, for which a contract has been awarded by the municipality of that city to McGivney, Rokeby & Company. (2) A plan for waterworks to supply the city of Santiago de Cuba, prepared by Captain S. D. Rockenbach, in charge of the district of Santiago, and approved by the military governor, providing for taking water from the wells of San Juan Canyon, and pumping the same to reservoirs located on the heights to the east of the city. (3) A plan for the sewering of the city of Santiago de Cuba, a contract for which was awarded to Michael J. Dady and Company, by the military governor of Cuba and now under construction. (4) The rules and regulations established by the President of the United States on the seventeenth of January, 1899, for the maintenance of quarantine against epidemic diseases at the ports of Habana, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, and Santiago de Cuba, and thereafter at the other ports of the island, as extended and amended and made applicable to future conditions, by the order of the military governor dated April 29th, 1902, published in the Official Gazette of Havana on the 29th day of April, 1902. (5) The sanitary rules and regulations in force in the city of Havana. It is understood by the United States that the present government of the Isle of Pines will continue as a de facto government pending the settlement of the title to the said island by treaty pursuant to the Cuban constitution and the act of Congress of the United States approved March 2, 1901. I am further charged by the President of the United States to deliver to you the letter which I now hand you. [SEAL.] LEONARD WOOD, Military Governor of Cuba. Classification of clerks in Cuban service. AMENDMENT TO CIVIL SERVICE RULES. In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution and by virtue of the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes, and of the civil service act approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, the following rule for the regulation and improvement of the executive civil service is hereby promulgated: SPECIAL RULE. Persons who were in the employ of the United States in the military government in Cuba and who are not eligible for retention in the classified service under existing rules, but have been specially commended for appointment therein by the chiefs of their respective departments, with the approval of the Secretary of War, because of efficient services rendered under conditions of personal danger from yellow fever and other tropical diseases, and whose names are embraced in the list heretofore furnished to the Civil Service Commission by the War Department, may be retained and appointed to positions of a grade corresponding to that which they now hold in the classified service, with the consent and approval of the Commission. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Approved. WHITE HOUSE, July 3rd, 1902. (Proclamation, July 3, 1902. Cuban vessels exempted from United States tonnage tax. P. 397, S. Doc. 105, 58th Cong., 2d sess.) Office of Military Governor of Philippine Islands abolished. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., July 4, 1902. The insurrection against the sovereign authority of the United States in the Philippine Archipelago having ended and Provincial Civil Governments having been established throughout the entire territory of the Archipelago, not inhabited by Moro tribes, under instructions of the President to the Philippine Commission, dated April 7, 1900, now ratified and confirmed by Act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, entitled "An Act Temporarily to provide for the administration of Affairs of Civil Government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes," the General Commanding the Division of the Philippines is hereby relieved from further performance of the duties of Military Governor and the office of the Military Governor in said Archipelago is terminated. The General Commanding the Division of the Philippines and all military officers in authority therein will continue to observe directions contained in the aforesaid instructions of the President, that the military forces in the Division of the Philippines shall be at all times subject, under the orders of the Military Commander, to the call of the civil authorities for maintenance of law and order, and the enforcement of their authority. By the President: ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of War. Thanks of the President to the officers and enlisted men of the United States Army. To the Army of the United States: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, July 4, 1902. The President upon this anniversay of national independence wishes to express to the officers and enlisted men of the United States Army his deep appreciation of the service they have rendered to the country in the great and difficult undertakings which they have brought to a successful conclusion during the past year. He thanks the officers and the enlisted men who have been maintaining order and carrying on the military government in Cuba, because they have faithfully given effect to the humane purposes of the American people. They have with sincere kindness helped the Cuban people to take all the successive steps necessary to the establishment of their own constitutional government. During the time required for that process they have governed Cuba wisely, regarding justice and respecting individual liberty; have honestly collected and expended for the best interests of the Cuban people the revenues, amounting to over sixty millions of dollars; have carried out practical and thorough sanitary measures, greatly improving the health and lowering the death rate of the island. By patient, scientific research they have ascertained the causes of yellow fever, and by good administration have put an end to that most dreadful disease which has long destroyed the lives and hindered the commercial prosperity of the Cubans. They have expedited justice and secured protection for the rights of the innocent, while they have cleansed the prisons and established sound discipline and healthful conditions for the punishment of the guilty. They have reestablished and renovated and put upon a substantial basis adequate hospitals and asylums for the care of the unfortunate. They have established a general system of free common schools throughout the island, in which over two hundred thousand children are in actual attendance. They have constructed great and necessary public works. They have gradually trained the Cubans themselves in all branches of administration, so that the new government upon assuming power has begun its work with an experienced force of Cuban civil service employees competent to execute its orders. They have borne themfelves with dignity and self-control, so that nearly four years of military occupation have passed unmarred by injury or insult to man or woman. They have transferred the government of Cuba to the Cuban people and universal expressions of friendship and good will, and have left a record of ordered justice and liberty, of rapid improvement in material and moral conditions, and progress in the art of government which reflects great credit upon the people of the United States. The President thanks the officers and enlisted men of the Army in the Philippines, both regulars and volunteers, for the courage and fortitude, the indomitable spirit and loyaì devotion with which they have put down and ended the great insurrection which has raged throughout the archipelago against the lawful sovereignty and just authority of the United States. The task was peculiarly difficult and trying. They were required at first to overcome organized resistance of superior numbers, well equipped with modern arms of precision. intrenched in an unknown country of mountain defiles, jungles, and swamps. apparently capable of interminable defense. When this resistance had been overcome, they were required to crush out a general system of guerrilla warfare conducted among a people speaking unknown tongues, from whom it was almost impossible to obtain the information necessary for successful pursuit or to guard against surprise and ambush. The enemies by whom they were surrounded were regardless of all obligations of good faith and of all the limitations which humanity has imposed upon civilized warfare. Bound themselves by the laws of war, our soldiers were called upon to meet every device of unscrupulous treachery and to contemplate without reprisal the infliction of barbarous cruelties upon their comrades and friendly natives. They were instructed, while punishing armed resistance, to conciliate the friendship of the peaceful, yet had to do with a population among whom it was impossible to distinguish friend from foe, and who in countless instances used a false appearance of friendship for ambush and assassination. They were obliged to deal with problems of communication and transportation in a country without roads and frequently made impassable by torrential rains. They were weakened by tropical heat and tropical disease. Widely scattered over a great archipelago, extending a thousand miles from north to south, the gravest responsibilities, involving the life or death of their commands, frequently devolved upon young and inexperienced officers beyond the reach of specific orders or advice. Under all these adverse circumstances the Army of the Philippines has accomplished its task rapidly and completely. In more than two thousand combats, great and small, within three years, it has exhibited unvarying courage and resolution. Utilizing the lessons of the Indian wars it has relentlessly followed the guerrilla bands to their fastnesses in mountain and jungle and crushed them. It has put an end to the vast system of intimidation and secret assassination by which the peaceful natives were prevented from taking a genuine part in government under American authority. It has captured or forced to surrender substantially all the leaders of the insurrection. It has submitted to no discouragement and halted at no obstacle. Its officers have shown high qualities of command, and its men have shown devotion and discipline. Its splendid virile energy has been accompanied by self-control, patience, and magnanimity. With surprisingly few individual exceptions its course has been characterized by humanity and kindness to the prisoner and the noncombatant. With admirable good temper, sympathy, and loyalty to American ideals its commanding generals have joined with the civilian agents of the Government in healing the wounds of war and assuring to the people of the Philippines the blessings of peace and prosperity. Individual liberty, protection of personal rights, civil order, public instruction, and religious freedom have followed its footsteps. It has added honor to the flag which it defended, and has justified increased confidence in the future of the American people, whose soldiers do not shrink from labor or death, yet love liberty and peace. The President feels that he expresses the sentiments of all the loyal people of the United States in doing honor to the whole Army which has joined in the performance and shares in the credit of these honorable services. This General Order will be read aloud at parade in every military post on the 4th day of July, 1902, or on the first day after it shall have been received. ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of War. (Proclamation, July 4, 1902. Amnesty, Philippine insurrection. P. 398, S. Doc. 105, 58th Cong., 2d sess.) Rules governing the granting and issuing of passports in the insular possessions of the United States. Section 4075 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of Congress approved June 14, 1902, providing that "the Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued, and verified in foreign countries by such diplomatic or consular officers of the United States, and by such chief or other executive officer of the insular possessions of the United States, and under such rules as the President shall designate and prescribe for and on behalf of the United States," the following rules are hereby prescribed for the granting and issuing of passports in the insular possessions of the United States: 1. By whom issued.—Application for a passport by a person in one of the insular possessions of the United States should be made to the chief executive of such possession. A person who is entitled to receive a passport if temporarily abroad should apply to the diplomatic representative of the United States in the country where he happens to be; or, in the absence of a diplomatic representative, to the consulgeneral of the United States; or, in the absence of both, to the consul of the United States. The necessary statements may be made before the nearest consular officer of the United States. 2. To whom issued.-The law forbids the granting of a passport to any person who does not owe allegiance to the United States. A person who has only made the declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States can not receive a passport. 3. Applications.-A person who is entitled to receive a passport must make a written application in the form of an affidavit. The affidavit must be attested by an officer authorized to administer oaths, and if he has an official seal it must be affixed. If he has no seal, his official character must be authenticated by certificate of the proper legal officer. If the applicant signs by mark, two attesting witnesses to his signature are required. The applicant is required to state the date and place of his birth, his occupation and the place of his permanent residence, and to declare that he goes abroad for temporary sojourn, and intends to return to the United States or one of the insular possessions of the United States with the purpose of residing and performing the duties of citizenship therein. The applicant must take the oath of allegiance to the Government of the United States. The application must be accompanied by a description of the person applying, and should state the following particulars, viz: Age, feet inches (English measure); forehead, —; hair, ; stature, ; eyes, -; complexion, -; nose, ; face, mouth, -; chin, The application must be accompanied by a certificate from at least one credible witness that the applicant is the person he represents himself to be, and that the facts stated in the affidavit are true to the best of the witness's knowledge and belief. 4. Native citizens of the United States.-An application containing the information indicated by rule 3 will be sufficient evidence in the case of native citizens of the United States. 5. A person born abroad whose father was a native citizen of the United States. In addition to the statements required by rule 3, his application must show that his father was born in the United States, resided therein, and was a citizen at the time of the applicant's birth. The Department may require that this affidavit be supported by that of one other citizen acquainted with the facts. 6. Naturalized citizens.-In addition to the statements required by rule 3, a naturalized citizen must transmit his certificate of naturalization, or a duly certified copy of the court record thereof, with his application. It will be returned to him after inspection. He must state in his affidavit when and from what port he emigrated to this country, what ship he sailed in, where he has lived since his arrival in the United States, when and before what court he was naturalized, and that he is the identical person described in the certificate of naturalization. The signature to the application should conform in orthography to the applicant's name as written in his certificate of naturalization. 7. Woman's application.—If she is unmarried, in addition to the statements required by rule 3, she should state that she has never been married. If she is the wife of a native citizen of the United States the fact should be made to appear in her application. If she is the wife or widow of a naturalized citizen, in addition to the statements required by rule 3, she must transmit for inspection her husband's certificate of naturalization, must state that she is the wife (or widow) of the person described therein, and must set forth the facts of his emigration, naturalization, and residence, as required in the rule governing the application of a naturalized citizen. 8. The child of a naturalized citizen claiming citizenship through the natu ralization of the parent.-In addition to the statements required by rule 3, the applicant must state that he or she is the son or daughter, as the case may be, of the person described in the certificate of naturalization, which must be submitted for inspection, and must set forth the facts of emigration, naturaliza |