Congressional Serial Set, Issue 4275U.S. Government Printing Office, 1901 Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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... stones , or other blunt instruments . Strong_men when overcome are secured by tying the arms at the elbows behind the back . They are then conducted to some convenient spot beyond the sight of passers - by and usu- ally killed with the ...
... stones , or other blunt instruments . Strong_men when overcome are secured by tying the arms at the elbows behind the back . They are then conducted to some convenient spot beyond the sight of passers - by and usu- ally killed with the ...
Page 64
... stone . The bridges built have varied according to circumstances . The larger number have been truss , pile , or trestle bridges . In a few cases the piers and the abutments or the entire bridge have been built of stone when this could ...
... stone . The bridges built have varied according to circumstances . The larger number have been truss , pile , or trestle bridges . In a few cases the piers and the abutments or the entire bridge have been built of stone when this could ...
Page 90
... stone , but this has been found to be a mis- take . To clean them to a depth permitting free tidal circulation with a minimum depth of water of 2 feet would cost a very large sum , one quite beyond the present resources of the city ...
... stone , but this has been found to be a mis- take . To clean them to a depth permitting free tidal circulation with a minimum depth of water of 2 feet would cost a very large sum , one quite beyond the present resources of the city ...
Page 93
... stone a launch was purchased in 1900 , and cost about 19,000 pesos . It has been in constant service . Streets . - The work has consisted almost exclusively of repairs and in surfacing the different streets and drives . The quantity of ...
... stone a launch was purchased in 1900 , and cost about 19,000 pesos . It has been in constant service . Streets . - The work has consisted almost exclusively of repairs and in surfacing the different streets and drives . The quantity of ...
Page 94
... stones are displaced in many places by roots of shrubbery the size of a man's arm . Twice each year the wall faces ... stone being a rather poor lava , which is soon worn to powder and blown off or is washed away as dust . There is no ...
... stones are displaced in many places by roots of shrubbery the size of a man's arm . Twice each year the wall faces ... stone being a rather poor lava , which is soon worn to powder and blown off or is washed away as dust . There is no ...
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ADJUTANT-GENERAL appointed Army ARTHUR MACARTHUR August authorized band of insurgents barrio Binondo board of health buildings Capt Captain captured casualties Cavalry charge chief commissary city commission city of Manila commanding detachment Company cuartels Department of Northern disbursements disease district duty fire fiscal Forty-second Infantry HEADQUARTERS PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL horses hospital Ilocano Ilocos Norte Ilocos Sur Inclosure Infantry inspection insular insurgents issued July June 30 killed license Lieut Lieutenant Luzon ment miles military governor month municipal Nipa Northern Luzon Nueva Ecija offenses officers ordinance Pasig Pasig River person Philippine Islands police prisoners Private property province provost courts provost guard quartermaster ration received regiment regulate repair respectfully rifles River rounds of ammunition Sampaloc Santa scouts Spanish stations streets superintendent supply surgeon thence Thirty-fifth Infantry Thirty-fourth Infantry Thirty-second Infantry Total troops U. S. Infantry United United States Army Visayas Volunteers wounded
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Page 78 - This city, Its Inhabitants, Its churches and religious worship, Its educational establishments and Its private property of all descriptions, are placed under the special safeguard of the faith and honor of the American army.
Page 135 - ... provide for the collection of a direct annual tax to pay, and sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such debt within eighteen years from the time of the contracting thereof.
Page 171 - Secretary of the Board of Health of the Department of Health of the City of New York...
Page 142 - ... and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the board of directors or by the bylaws.
Page 133 - President in such sum, and with such sureties, as shall be approved by the Executive Committee.
Page 78 - The government established among you by the United States is a government of military occupation; and for the present it is ordered that the municipal laws such as affect private rights of persons and property, regulate local institutions, and provide for the punishment of crime, shall be considered as continuing in force, so far as compatible with the purposes of military government, and that they be administered through the ordinary tribunals substantially as before occupation, but by officials...
Page 105 - All churches and buildings devoted to religious worship and to the arts and sciences, all schoolhouses, are, so far as possible, to be protected, and all destruction or intentional defacement of such places, of historical monuments or archives, or of works of science or art, is prohibited, save when required by urgent military necessity.
Page 121 - And be it further enacted, That it -shall be the duty of each officer, assigned as aforesaid, to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...
Page 104 - ... not to make war upon the inhabitants of Cuba, nor upon any party or faction among them, but to protect them in their homes, in their employments, and in their personal and religious rights.
Page 128 - ... to devote their attention in the first instance to the establishment of municipal governments in which the natives of the islands, both in the cities and in the rural communities, shall be afforded the opportunity to manage their own local affairs to the fullest extent of which they are capable, and subject to the least degree of supervision and control which a careful study of their capacities and observation of the workings of native control show to be consistent with the maintenance of law,...