de Infanteria; and as thus modified the reservation includes 2.2769 hectares (5.626 acres), with metes and bounds described as follows:

Beginning at the property line on the northeasterly side of Calle Arroceros, at corner No. 1, as indicated on Philippines Division Map of August, 1909; thence N 28° 05′ W, 176.8 meters to the property line of Calle Colgante (corner No. 2 of said plan); thence N 59° 12′ E, 110.12 meters to the Pasig River (corner No. 3 of said plan); thence S 38° 19′ E, along the Pasig River, 102.4 meters, to corner No. 4, of said plan; thence S 31° 45' E, along the Pasig River, 91.24 meters, to corner No. 5 of said plan; thence S 65° 15' W, 131.7 meters to corner No. 1 of said plan, the point of beginning.

DIVISION HOSPITAL.

This reservation contains an area of 2.8305 hectares (about 6.994 acres), and includes all lands within metes and bounds as follows:

Beginning at the east property line of Calle Arroceros, at the northwest corner of the Division Hospital property, as shown on Philippines Division map of August, 1909; thence N 86° 12' 30'' E, 136.6 meters; thence S 3° 45′ E, varying if necessary to exclude any buildings of the Medical Supply Depot, 210.0 meters, more or less, to the north property line of Calle de la Concepcion; thence S 88° 33' W, along said property line, 131.23 meters; thence N 42° 19' 30'' W, 8.79 meters, to the east property line of Calle Arroceros; thence N 3° 45′ W, along said property line, 197.8 meters, more or less, to the point of beginning. All bearings are true. Also a right of way 10 meters wide from the north end of this tract through the Medical Supply Depot to the Pasig River.

CUARTEL DE ESPAÑA.

This reservation includes two parcels, as shown on Philippines Division map of August, 1909, as follows:

Parcel A. Area, 3.076 hectares (about 7.6 acres), with metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at the southeast property line of Calle Victoria (corner No. 1 of said map); thence N 54° 45′ E, along said property line, 57.65 meters to corner No. 2; thence N 53° 18′ E, along said property line, 36.94 meters to corner No. 3; thence S 85° E, 6.3 meters to the southwest property line of Calle Palacio; thence S 40° 18′ E, along said property line, 34.85 meters to corner No. 5; thence S 41° 21' E, 69.39 meters, along the same property line, to corner No. 6; thence S 36° 01' E, along the same property line, 16.8 meters to corner No. 7; thence S 37° 56′ E, along the same property line, 51.11 meters to corner No. 8; thence S 8° 33' W, 5.54 meters, to the northwest property line of Calle Fundicion (corner No. 9); thence S 52° 23′ W, along the same property line, 29.4 meters to corner No. 10; thence S. 62° 41′ W. along the same property line, 131.21 meters to corner No. 11; thence N 58° 29′ W, 8.59 meters, to the northeast property line of Calle Sta. Lucia (corner No. 12); thence N 36° 43' W, along the same property line, 148.68 meters (corner No. 13); thence N 9° 11' E 6.91 meters to the southeast property line of Calle Victoria (corner No, 14); thence N 54° 45′ E, along the same property line, 53.48 meters, to corner No. 1, the place of beginning. All bearings are true.

Parcel B. Area, 1.230 hectares (about 3.04 acres), with metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at the southerly corner of said parcel (corner No. 1 of said map); thence N 28° 53′ W, along the face of the bastion, 93.52 meters to the point of curvature; thence curving to the right, along the face of the bastion, to a point about 21 meters N 52° 06′ E. of the last-mentioned point; thence N 52° 06′ E, 8.8 meters; thence N 15° 54' E, 20.95 meters; thence N 32° 40' W, 109.8 meters, to corner No. 2 of said map; thence N 57° 20′ E, 25.4 meters to corner No. 3 of said map; thence S 34° 36′ E, 116.8 meters, to corner No. 4 of said map; thence N 53° 17′ E, 38.72 meters, to corner No. 5 of said map, being the southwest property line of Calle Sta. Lucia; thence S 36° 43' E, 66.19 meters, to corner No. 6 of said map; thence S 60° 47' W, 35.81 meters, to coruer; thence S 29° 13' E, 8.07 meters; thence N 60° 47′ E, along face of the bastion, about 6 meters; thence on a curve to the right, along the face of the bastion, to a point about 18 meters S 29° 13′ E. of the last-mentioned point: thence S 55° 37′ W, 97.0 meters, more or less, to the point of beginning (corner No. 1 of said map). All bearings are true.

NOZALEDA.

This reservation comprises two parcels, separated by Calle Nozaleda, which are reserved with the understanding that should the Government of the Philip

pine Islands need the grounds, in whole or in part, in the execution of the approved project for the building of the Capitol, laying out of its grounds, and the construction of other buildings provided for therein, upon formal request for this purpose the reservation will, with as little delay as practicable, be transferred, in whole or in part as may be required, to the said Government, either by sale or in exchange for other property suitably situated for officers' quarters; and upon such transfer the said Government will compensate the United States for any expenditure incident to such exchange, including the construction of new quarters of equal value to those destroyed.

The metes and bounds of said parcels are as follows:

Parcel A. Area, 1.1056 hectares (about 2.51 acres). Beginning at the southeast corner of said parcel, on the northerly property line of Calle Nozaleda, at corner No. 4 on Philippines Division map of August, 1909; thence N 72° 13′ W, 190.69 meters, to corner No. 5 of said map; thence N 10° 12′ W, 16.71 meters to the easterly property line of Calle Bagumbayan (corner No. 6 of said map); thence N 51° 08′ E, along said property line, 59.48 meters, to corner No. 7 of said map; thence N 44° 30' E, 54.22 meters, to corner No. 8 of said map; thence S 45° 31′ E, 50 meters; thence S 44° 30′ W, 56.42 meters, to a point 40 meters from the northerly property line of Calle Nozaleda; thence S 72° 13′ E, parallel to and 40 meters distant from the said property line, 129.2 meters, to the easterly line of the said reservation; thence S 28° 43′ W, 40.6 meters, to the point of beginning. All bearings are true.

Parcel B. Area, 0.858 hectares (about 2.12 acres). Beginning at the intersection of the southerly property line of Calle Nozaleda with the easterly line of Calle Bagumbayan (corner No. 1 of Philippines Division map of August, 1909); thence S 72° 13′ E, along the southerly property line of Calle Nozaleda, 211.01 meters, to corner No. 2 of said map; thence S 17° 47′ W, 48.03 meters, to corner No. 3 of said map; thence N 84° 46' W, 97.5 meters, to corner No. 4 of said map; thence N 48° 44' W, 134.15 meters, to corner No. 5 of said map; thence N 41° 41′ E, 17.73 meters, to corner No. 1, the point of beginning. All bearings are true.

II. It is further ordered as follows:

1. Medical Supply Depot.-The Medical Supply Depot will be continued at the present situation until the completion of the storehouses, buildings, etc., on the new-made ground, reserved above under the name of the Port Reservation: whereupon, this reservation will pass to the control of the Government of the Philippine Islands to be administered for the benefit of the inhabitants thereof.

2. The Army and Navy Club.-Upon completion of the new Army and Navy Club Building, the Army and Navy Club Reservation, situate at the corner of Calle Palacio and Calle Santa Potenciana, will pass to the control of the Government of the Philippine Islands, to be administered for the benefit of the inhabitants thereof.

3. Army morgue and storehouses (At Bagumbayan Road).-This reservation will pass to the control of the Government of the Philippine Islands to be administered for the benefit of the inhabitants thereof, as soon as provision can be made for the morgue elsewhere. Steps will be taken, with as little delay as practicable, to locate a morgue of suitable size upon the grounds now occupied by the Division Hospital; and the stores at present held in the storehouses on this reservation will be transferred to the general storehouses on the south side of the Pasig River.

4. San Antonio Abad.-As soon as the corrals at present located on this reservation can be located on the new-made land reserved above under the head of Port Reservation, this reservation will pass to the control of the Government of the Philippine Islands to be administered for the benefit of the inhabitants thereof. The old fortification of San Antonio Abad will be retained by said Government as a historical monument.

5. Dry docks and shops on north side of the Pasig River at its mouth.-Upon completion of the present arrangement with the Government of the Philippine Islands. the shops will be done away with, and the repair of launches, etc., done entirely through local sources, which are ample and thoroughly wellequipped for this work; and the reservation will pass to the control of said Government to be administered for the benefit of the inhabitants thereof.

THE WHITE HOUSE, February 13, 1911.

WM H TAFT

Appointment of Commander Richard H. Jackson to Wireless Telegraphy Board.

No. 1303.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

Executive Order No. 1198, dated April 30, 1910, is so far amended that Commander Richard H. Jackson, U. S. N., is hereby appointed a member of the Wireless Board referred to therein, vice Commander Chester M. Knepper, U. S. N., relieved.

THE WHITE HOUSE, February 18, 1911.

WM. H. TAFT.

Wireless telegraphy in the Philippine Islands.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, September 4, 1911.

Captain Templin M. Potts, United States Navy, Colonel Frank McIntyre, and Lieutenant-Colonel George P. Scriven, United States Army, are hereby appointed a Board of Review to act upon the proceedings of a joint board convened in the Philippine Islands pursuant to the Executive Order, dated April 30, 1910. The Board of Review will, in addition, recommend a system of wireless telegraphy to be adopted for use in the Philippine Islands and will submit definite estimates of the cost of installation and maintenance and will recommend a definite method of procedure.

WM. H. Taft.

Military reservation restored to the control of the Government of the Philippine Islands.

No. 1411.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

It is hereby ordered that the military reservation at Pasay, Rizal Province, Luzon, Philippine Islands, known as Pasay Barracks," as declared by Executive Order dated June 20, 1904 (G. O. No. 116, War Department, June 27, 1904), having become useless for military purposes, be and the same is hereby transferred to the jurisdiction and control of the Government of the Philippine Islands, to be administered for the benefit of the inhabitants thereof, pursuant to Section 12 of the Act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, entitled "An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes (32 Stat. L., 691).

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THE WHITE HOUSE, September 13, 1911.

WM H TAFT

Harbors not subject to entry.

No. 1613.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

It is hereby ordered that the following named harbors, viz:

Tortugas, Florida;

Great Harbor, Culebra ;

Guantanamo Naval Station, Cuba;

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii;

Guam;

Subig Bay, Philippine Islands;

Kiska, Aleutian Islands;

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are not, and that they shall not be made, sub-ports of entry for foreign vessels of commerce, and that said harbors shall not be visited by any commercial or privately owned vessel of foreign registry, nor by any foreign national vessel, except by special authority of the United States Navy Department in each case. WM H TAFT

THE WHITE HOUSE, September 23, 1912.

Desecheo Island, P. R. for bird reservation.

No. 1669.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

It is hereby ordered that Desecheo Island, located in Mono Passage, Porto Rico, approximately in latitude eighteen degrees twenty-three minutes north. longitude sixty-seven degrees twenty-nine minutes west from Greenwich, as the same is shown upon Coast Survey chart No. 901, and segregated by the broken line upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this Order, be and the same is hereby reserved and set aside, subject to its use for naval and lighthouse purposes, for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.

It is unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, willfully disturb, or kill any bird of any kind whatever, or take the eggs of such bird, within the limits of this reservation, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture.

Warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated and which are prohibited by law.

This reservation to be known as Desecheo Island Reservation.

THE WHITE HOUSE, December 19, 1912.

WM H TAFT.

Passports issued to laborers from foreign countries.

No. 1712.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

Whereas, by the act entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States," approved February 20, 1907, whenever the President is satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone, are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, it is made the duty of the President to refuse to permit such citizens of the country issuing such passports to enter the continental territory of the United States from such country or from such insular possession or from the Canal Zone;

And Whereas, upon sufficient evidence produced before me by the Department of Commerce and Labor, I am satisfied that passports issued by certain foreign governments to their citizens or subjects who are laborers, skilled or unskilled. to proceed to countries or places other than the continental territory of the United States, are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders thereof to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein;

I hereby order that such alien laborers, skilled or unskilled, be refused permission to enter the continental territory of the United States.

It is further ordered that the Secretary of Commerce and Labor be, and he hereby is, directed to take, through the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, such measures and to make and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry this order into effect.

THE WHITE HOUSE, February 24, 1913.

WM H TAFT

PRINCIPAL OFFICIALS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, PORTO RICO HAWAII, ALASKA, GUAM, TUTUILA, AND CUBA ON JANUARY 1, 1913.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

LEGISLATIVE.

THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION.

President.-W. Cameron Forbes.

Members.-Dean C. Worcester, Charles B. Elliott, Gregorio Araneta, Newton W. Gilbert, José R. de Luzuriaga, Rafael Palma, Juan Sumulong, Frank A. Branagan.

Secretary.-George C. Schweickert.