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2. The President of the United States will appoint and fix the salaries of the General Receiver of Dominican Customs, of the Deputy General Receiver of Dominican Customs, as well as of all other customs employees under the receivership. In cases of emergency, provisional appointments and removals for cause may be made in the discretion of the General Receiver, subject to the approval of the President of the United States.

3. The accountable bonds to be required by the receivership, except as herein otherwise provided, shall be fixed by the General Receiver, subject to the approval of the Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs.

4. Under the Bureau of Insular Affairs, the General Receiver shall have full charge and control of the Dominican customs receivership within the scope of the Convention of February 8, 1907, between the United States of America and Dominican Republic, and shall enforce and comply with the provisions thereof. He shall give bond in such form and amount as may be determined by the Chief of said Bureau.

5. The Deputy General Receiver shall assist the General Receiver in the performance of his duties and in matters pertaining to the receivership, in such manner as the General Receiver shall direct, and in the absence or disability of the latter, the Deputy General Receiver, shall perform the duties of the General Receiver, and assume, without formal transfer, the corresponding accountability. The Deputy General Receiver shall give bond under the same conditions as the General Receiver.

6. The General Receiver shall pay all necessary and authorized expenses of the receivership as they arise, within the limitations of the Convention. The allowance not exceeding five per cent "for the expense of collecting the revenues," under Article I of the Convention, shall be considered as available only for the payment of the customs expense of the central office of the receivership, its special customs agents and the several customs houses of the Republic as authorized by the said General Receiver or other proper authority of the United States Government.

7. All of the expenditures and disbursements of funds handled by the Receivership shall be covered by complete vouchers in duplicate; one copy of each such voucher shall be retained as a part of the permanent files of the central office of the receivership, and the other transmitted to the Dominican Government, together with the corresponding accountable returns.

8. All books, records and accounts of the receivership shall be kept available and accessible for examination, inspection and audit at any time, by officers designated for that purpose, in accordance with the Convention, by either the Dominican or the United States Government. Such books, records and accounts shall constitute permanent archives of the central office of the receivership, and shall not be removed therefrom.

9. The General Receiver, or in his absence, the Deputy General Receiver, shall submit the following reports to the Bureau of Insular Affairs, and to the Dominican Government:

I. On the first of each month, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the Accountable Returns covering all transactions of the receivership during the preceding month.

II. On the first of each month, or as soon thereafter as practicable, a consolidated report of the receipts and expenditures of the Dominican customs service during the preceding month, accompanied by the corresponding statement for each entry port of the Republic separately.

III. For the six months ending June 30th and December 31st of each year, and as soon as practicable after those dates, statistical reports of the commerce of the Republic.

IV. At the end of each fiscal year of the receivership, starting from the date upon which the operations of the receivership begin under the Convention, and as soon thereafter as practicable, a general report of all transactions of the receivership during each such year, together with such collateral data and remarks as may be deemed pertinent thereto.

10. The General Receiver shall prepare and promulgate from time to time such additional regulations as he may deem necessary for the proper conduct of the service under his direction. Copies of all such regulations and formal orders issued, shall be transmitted, as soon as practicable after their issuance to the Bureau of Insular Affairs, and shall be subject to the approval of the Chief of that Bureau.

11. When deemed necessary, and at least once in each fiscal year, a personal inspection and examination of all accounts and records of the Receivership

shall be made in Santo Domingo by a representative of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, who shall file with said Bureau a full report of his findings for such action as may be required.

12. From and after August 1, 1907, upon which date these regulations shall become effective, and until such time as the provisions of the Convention, through the completion of the corresponding financial arrangement, become fully operative, the General Receiver shall, in his own name as such General Receiver, in a new account, continue to make the same disposition of the funds received by him as heretofore.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Classification of employees serving beyond the seas.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

THE WHITE HOUSE, August 12, 1907.

Mr. A. J. Robinson, who has had more than four years of service in a civil capacity with the United States Army beyond the seas, with the exception of three periods of leave due to sickness on account of the trying character of his work in China and the Philippines, and who failed to receive classification under the Executive order of November 18, 1901, by reason of the fact that he was serving in Luzon at the time instead of on a home station, may be classified as train-master in the Quartermaster's Department at Large.

In similar cases of exceptional merit where an employee has had a long and faithful service in a civil capacity beyond the seas, under conditions such that his appointment and services were not in contravention of the civil service rules or Executive orders, he may be classified by the Department, with the approval of the Civil Service Commission.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

United States Civil Service Commission to assist the Porto Rican Civil Service Commission. 694.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

The United States Civil Service Commission is directed to render such assistance as may be practicable to the Porto Rican Civil Service Commission, created under the insular legislative act of March 14, 1907, and officers and employees in the Federal service in Porto Rico shall facilitate the holding of examinations and other work of the Porto Rican Civil Service Commission and render such other assistance as may be practicable. The United States Civil Service Commission, may, in its discretion, authorize the transfer of employees from the civil service of Porto Rico to that of the United States, subject to the limitations respecting transfer within the Federal civil service.

THE WHITE HOUSE, September 27, 1907.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Temporary provisional governor of Cuba.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, January 27, 1908.

Brigadier General Thomas H. Barry, United States Army, Commanding the Army of Cuban Pacification, will act as Provisional Governor of Cuba during the temporary absence of Honorable Charles E. Magoon from Cuba.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Hours of labor at navy yards.

No. 777.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

It is hereby ordered that on Saturdays, until further notice, during the months and at the naval stations hereinbelow named, four hours, exclusive of time for luncheon, shall constitute a day's work for skilled mechanics and laborers and employees in the classified service at said naval stations; viz. : Naval Stations:

Cavite and Olongapo, P. I.: April, May, and June;

Guam: July, August, and September;
Tutuila December, January, and February;
Honolulu: July, August, and September;
Guantanamo: June, July, and August;

San Juan, P. R.: August, September, and October:

Provided, That if any skilled mechanic or laborer shall work more than four hours on any Saturday during the months aforesaid he shall be paid for such extra work at the rate of fifty per centum in addition to his regular and normal compensation and no more.

THE WHITE HOUSE, April 4, 1908.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

(Proclamation, Aug. 4, 1908. Transferring to Porto Rico part of naval reservation. War Department Document 353, p. 605.)

Temporary provisional governor of Cuba.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, August 18, 1908.

Major General Thomas H. Barry, United States Army, Commanding the Army of Cuban Pacification, will act as Provisional Governor of Cuba during the temporary absence of Honorable Charles E. Magoon from Cuba.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Transfer of clerks serving in Cuba to classified service.

No. 995.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

During the provisional administration of the Cuban Government by the United States, which began September 29, 1906, it became necessary for the United States to employ persons in a civil capacity in Cuba in classified positions, both under the provisional government and the army of Cuban pacification, some of whom were temporarily transferred from the classified service while others were appointed temporarily without examination.

Upon the termination of the provisional government any person thus temporarily employed without examination may be transferred within one year from the date of the termination of his service in Cuba under the provisional government or the army of Cuban pacification to the classified service subject to the rules governing transfer and the following limitations:

(a) He may not be transferred to a position requiring a higher grade of work than that performed by him in Cuba.

(b) He must pass the examination required for original entrance to the position to which his transfer is proposed; and no person who at any time previous to this order or otherwise has failed in such examination shall be allowed reexamination except upon special order of the Civil Service Commission founded upon reasons peculiar to his case approved by said Commission.

(c) He must have served at least one year in a civil capacity under the provisional government in Cuba or the army of Cuban pacification and to within six months of the termination of said provisional government or of the withdrawal of the said army of Cuban pacification.

(d) His name must appear upon a list to be furnished by the War Department to the Civil Service Commission of persons who rendered satisfactory service and who were not separated for delinquency or misconduct, such list to show sufficient data to enable the Commission to determine eligibility for transfer under the foregoing.

It is to be understood that this action is not to be taken as a precedent for similar action in any future case; and hereafter in making any appointments or employments, when it is not possible to make selection for that purpose from certifications from the Civil Service Commission's eligible registers, persons employed without examination shall not thereafter be brought into the classified service by special order.

THE WHITE HOUSE, December 23, 1908.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Brakes on trains in Territories.

No. 1002.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered:

1. The requirements of the Act of Congress, relating to the use on trains of certain described and approved driving-wheel and train brakes, couplers, handholds, and drawbars of required height for freight cars, approved March 2, 1893 (contained in 27 Statutes at Large, page 531), and known as "AN ACT To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes," as amended by an Act approved April 1, 1896 (contained in 29 Statutes at Large, page 85), and as amended by an Act approved March 2, 1903 (contained in 32 Statutes at Large, page 943), shall be extended to apply to that Zone in the Republic of Panama mentioned and described in Section 2 of the Act of Congress, dated June 28, 1902, and entitled "An Act To provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans," and commonly known as the "Canal Zone."

2. The various appliances for the protection of trainmen on freight train cars, with reference to running boards, ladders, sill steps, roof handholds, and the position of brake shafts, as designated in the existing standards of the Master Car Builders' Association in the United States, shall be used by all carriers in the aforementioned Canal Zone.

3. The equipment and appliances required to be used in sections 1 and 2 of this order shall be constantly and at all times maintained in good and working order, by any and all railroads engaged in the business of a common carrier and operating in the aforementioned Canal Zone.

4. In particular, sections 1, 2, and 3 of this order shall be carefully observed and obeyed by the Panama Railroad, a carrier operating in the said Canal Zone.

5. All railroads operated and cars used by the Government of the United States within navy yards, arsenals, military reservations, government wharves, and any and all other territories under the jurisdiction of the United States, shall be equipped with the safety appliances required in the Safety Appliance Acts mentioned and described in section 1 of this order, and in the codes of rules mentioned and described in section 2 of this order; and said equipment and appliances shall at all times be maintained in good and working order.

6. This order shall take effect not later than six months from the date of the promulgation thereof. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

THE WHITE HOUSE, January 6, 1909.

Termination of provisional government.

To the President and Congress of the Republic of Cuba:

GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to advise you of the receipt by me of instructions from Hon. Luke E. Wright, Secretary of War of the United States, reading as follows:

"I have the honor to inclose herewith, for your official action two papers marked 'A' and 'B.' They have been submitted to and approved by the President and his Cabinet. The paper marked 'A' you will publish in the form of a decree as soon as practicable after its receipt. At noon on the 28th of January, the newly elected President and Congress of Cuba being assembled in one place, you will publicly read to them the declaration of transfer marked 'B' and at the same time deliver to the President the original thereof signed by you. This will be the operative act to terminate the provisional government."

The document referred to in said letter as "A" has heretofore been issued as a decree and published in the Official Gazette as Decree No. 128, dated January 27, 1909. The document referred to in said letter as "B" I will now read and deliver to His Excellency the President of the Republic of Cuba:

"HABANA, CUBA, January 28, 1909.

"To the President and Congress of the Republic of Cuba.

"SIRS: Under the direction of the President of the United States, I now relinquish to you as the duly elected representatives of the people of Cuba, to be held and exercised by you under the general provisions of the constitution of the Republic, the power and authority for sometime held and exercised by me under the provisions of the third article of the appendix to the constitution pursuant to the appointment of the President of the United States; and I hereby declare the provisional administration of the Republic of Cuba, established by the United States pursuant to the treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of Cuba, concluded May 22, 1903, and to the said third article of the appendix to the constitution of Cuba, to be ended.

"It is the understanding of the Government of the United States and, as a part of its final act in the exercise of the rights and powers conferred upon it as aforesaid, it now declares that all the executive and legislative decrees, regulations, and rulings of the provisional government now in force are to continue in force and effect until such time as the same shall be legally revoked by the Government of Cuba duly constituted in accordance with the general provisions of the constitution.

"All money obligations of the provisional government down to this date have been paid as far as practicable. Such claims and obligations of the provisional government, however, as may remain unpaid are to be regarded as claims and obligations of the Republic of Cuba, and the Government of the United States understands that these claims and obligations will be so treated.

"The Republic of Cuba under the provisional administration of the United States has executed the provisions of Article V of the appendix to the constitution of the Republic of Cuba to the extent of constructing some and entering into contracts for the construction of other works of sanitation contemplated by said article, and the government and control of the island are transferred to you, as the duly elected representatives of the people of Cuba under the constitution, with the express understanding that said contracts and all contracts entered into by the Republic of Cuba under the provisional administration of the United States relating to sanitation or for other public purposes shall be held inviolable and that they will be executed in accordance with their terms, and all rights acquired thereunder shall be maintained and protected.

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I am also directed by the President of the United States to declare that the United States considers that the second article of the appendix to the constitution of Cuba forbids the Government of Cuba to assume or contract any public debt in excess of, or in addition to, the debt already contracted or authorized by now existing laws and now existing decrees of the provisional government; and that the Government of the United States will not recognize or concede to be a valid obligation of the Government of Cuba any bond or evidence of debt which may be issued in violation of this understanding. I am further directed by the President of the United States to declare that it is the final and conclusive determination and decision of the provisional government of Cuba that all claims of the soldiers of the war of liberation have been fully satisfied and discharged by the execution of existing laws, and the Republic of Cuba remains

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