orpedo boat, tug, tender or a ship not rated.

A Lieutenant, junior grade, to command a torpedo boat, tug, tender or
ship not rated.

An Ensign to man a torpedo boat, tug or ship not rated.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., June 10, 1901_.

_To the Secretary of the Treasury_:

SIR:--The sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
remains unexpended, allotted and set aside by order of April 23, 1901,
from the appropriation made for the benefit and Government of Puerto
Rico by the act of March 24, 1900 (31 Stat, p. 51), is to be devoted to
public and permanent improvements in Puerto Rico and other governmental
and public purposes therein, as provided in the said act, and it is to
be expended under the supervision and subject to the approval of the
Government and administrative authorities of the Island.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., June 21, 1901._

I hereby order and direct that Executive Order dated May 3, 1899, be
amended so as to authorize the appointment of civilians as Collectors of
Customs in the Philippine Archipelago.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., June 21, 1901_.

_To the Secretary of War_:

SIR:--Pending the cessation of conditions requiring a continuance of
Military Government in the Philippine Islands, you are authorized to
make the following order:

On and after the 4th day of July, 1901, until it shall otherwise
be ordered, the President of the Philippine Commission will exercise
the Executive Authority in all civil affairs of the Government in
the Philippine Islands, heretofore exercised in such affairs by the
Military Governor of the Philippines, and to that end, the Hon. W.H.
Taft, President of the said Commission is hereby appointed Civil
Governor of the Philippine Islands. Such executive authority will be
exercised under and in conformity to the instructions to the Philippine
Commissioners dated April 7th, 1900, and subject to the approval and
control of the Secretary of War of the United States. The municipal
and Provincial Civil Governments will then, or shall hereafter be
established in said Islands and all persons performing duties pertaining
to the offices of Civil Government in said Islands will, in respect of
such duties report to the said Civil Government. The power to appoint
Civil Officers, heretofore vested in the Philippine Commission or i