oses;
viz:

Round Island, Mississippi. All of fractional sections three and four of
township nine (9) south, range six (6) west, east of Pearl River,
containing respectively about 16.50 acres and 33.34 acres.

Horn Island, Mississippi. All of fractional sections 31 of township nine
(9) south, range five (5) west, and thirty-six (36) of township nine (9)
south, range six (6) west, east of Pearl River, containing,
respectively, about 51.69 and 286.20 acres.

Petite Bois Blanc Island, Mississippi. All of fractional section three
(3) of township ten (10) south, range five (5) west, east of Pearl
River, containing approximately 81.27 acres.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _September 19, 1900._

In accordance with the provisions of Section 179 of the Revised
Statutes, as amended by an act making appropriations for the
legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the government, approved
August 5, 1882 (22 Stat, 238) Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles,
commanding the Army of the United States is authorized and directed to
perform the duties of Secretary of War during the illness or temporary
absence from the seat of government of the Secretary of War whenever
during such illness or absence the Assistant Secretary of War is also
absent; in accordance with the same provisions, Major-General Henry C.
Corbin, Assistant Adjutant-General of the Army is authorized and
directed to perform the duties of Secretary of War whenever during such
illness or absence the Assistant Secretary of War and the
lieutenant-general commanding the Army are also absent.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _September 20, 1900._

_The Honorable Secretary of the Treasury_:

SIR:--It is provided in the "Act making appropriations for sundry civil
expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901,
and for other purposes," approved June 6, 1900, that "The President of
the United States is hereby authorized in case of threatened or actual
epidemic of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, or Chinese
plague or black death to use the unexpended balance of the sums
appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation act
approved June 4, 1897, and $500,000 in addition thereto or so much
thereof as may be necessary in aid of constituting local boards or
otherwise in his discretion in preventing and suppressing the spread
of same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws