10.00
Navy Machinists; First-class 28.00
Navy Machinists; Second-class 20.00
Navy Firemen; First-class 18.00
Navy Firemen; Second-class 15.00
Navy Coal Passers 11.00
Navy Sutlers 15.00
Navy Cooks 13.00
Navy Mess-Attendants 8.00

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., April 6, 1901._.

It is hereby ordered that upon Tuesday the ninth (9th) instant such
employees of the Executive Departments; the Government Printing Office
and the Navy Yard and Station at Washington, as served in the Military
or Naval services of the United States in the late Civil War of
Spanish-American War, shall be excused from duty at one o'clock P.M. for
the remainder of that day to enable them to participate in the exercises
of the unveiling of the statue erected to the memory of the late General
John A. Logan.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., April 15, 1901._

In accordance with provisions of act of Congress approved January 4th,
1897 (30 Stat, 34 and 36), and by virtue of the authority thereby given,
and on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, it is hereby
ordered that the tracts hereinafter described and situated in township
fifty-eight (58) north, range eighty-nine (89) west, within the limits
of the Big Horn Forest reserve, in the State of Wyoming, be restored to
the public domain after sixty days' notice hereof by publication, as
required bylaw; these tracts having been found better adapted to
agricultural than forest purposes, to wit:

What will be, when surveyed, all that portion of sections thirteen (13),
fourteen (14), fifteen (15), sixteen (16), seventeen (17), in said
township and range lying south of the said line between Montana and
Wyoming, and all of sections twenty (20), twenty-one (21), twenty-two
(22), twenty-three (23) twenty-four (24), twenty-five (25), twenty-six
(26), and twenty-seven (27), all of said lands being in the State of
Wyoming.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., April 23, 1901_.

_To the Secretary of the Treasury_:

SIR:--The sum of five hundred thousand dollars is hereby allotted and
set aside from the appropriation made for the benefit and Government
of Puerto Rico by the act of March 24th, 1900 (31 Stat., p. 51), to be
expended for public and permanent improvements in Puerto