Guanajay: To be mayor, Francisco Oberto Zaldivar; to be first assistant mayor, Jaime Codina Nodal; to be second assistant mayor, Jose Chaple Galvez; to be third assistant mayor, Ambrosio Díaz Armenteros. San Diego de los Baños: To be first assistant mayor, Fernando Medina Gonzalez; to be second assistant mayor, Jose Encinosa Rodriguez. Province of Habana.-Guara: To be mayor, Rogelio Perez Alfonso; to be first assistant mayor, Hilario Gonzalez Velazquez; to be second assistant mayor, Antonio Rodriguez Garcia. Province of Matanzas.-Guamacaro: To be first assistant mayor, Eduardo Dorticas y Anido; to be second assistant mayor, Eduardo Booth Lamy; to be third assistant mayor, Francisco Nieto Borroto. Province of Santa Clara.-Yaguajay: To be first assistant mayor, Eliodoro Cruz Prieto; to be second assistant mayor, Virginio Benitez. Rancho Veloz: To be mayor, Alfredo Leiseca Sanson. II. The resignation of Esteban Leiseca as first assistant mayor of Rancho Veloz, province of Santa Clara, having been submitted, is hereby accepted. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, Chief of Staff. No. 51. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF CUBA, The military governor of Cuba, upon the recommendation of the secretary of state and government, directs me to announce the following appointments and resignation: I. Province of Pinar del Rio.-Consolacion del Norte: To be mayor, Claudio Fuentes Cruz. Province of Santa Clara.-Calabazar: To be first assistant mayor, Juan P. Quijano y Benito, vice Ramon Maria Valls, resigned. II. The resignation of Jose G. Dominguez as mayor of Perico, province of Matanzas, having been submitted, is hereby accepted. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, Chief of Staff. No. 52. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF CUBA, The military governor of Cuba, upon the recommendation of the secretary of public instruction, directs the publication of the following order: I. Assistant professors of the university and institutes of this island shall be appointed by the secretary of public instruction upon the recommendation of the faculties of the respective schools of said university and institutes. If there should not be unanimity, the names of all candidates who have obtained votes shall be mentioned, together with the number of votes obtained by each one. The names of the persons voting shall, however, be omitted. II. Heads of laboratories and clinics shall be appointed by the secretary of public instruction upon the recommendation of the faculty of the school of medicine; the latter will consider the report of the respective professors of the branches wherein the appointments are to be made. III. Assistants to professors in the school of medicine shall be appointed by the faculty of said school upon the recommendation which the respective professors may make of students who have obtained the mark of "excellent" in the branch for which they are proposed. IV. Heads of laboratories and clinics, as well as assistants to professors in the schools of sciences and pharmacy, must hold the title of licentiate or doctor in the respective schools. Assistant professors of the university must hold the title of doctor in the school in which they are appointed, and those of the institutes must hold the title of licentiate or doctor in philosophy and belles-lettres and sciences, engineering or architecture, according to the section to which they are to be appointed. V. Seniority and precedence of the professors of the university and institutes shall be determined by the date of taking possession of office, accepting in regard to those confirmed the list of incumbents approved January 29, 1895, if they appear thereon, and if not, the order of precedence shall be determined by the date of their confirmation. Seniority of all who, like the ones appointed, may have taken possession upon the same date shall be determined by the date of their degree of doctor. Seniority of professors holding degrees of the same date shall be determined by priority of graduation, and a like rule shall apply to all who upon taking possession were only licentiates. VI. The secretary of public instruction is hereby charged with the formation of the general roll of the faculties and other personnel of the university and institutes in accordance with the preceding rules and whenever he may deem proper. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, Chief of Staff. No. 53. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION Of Cuba, Habana, February 8, 1900. The military governor of Cuba directs the publication of the following order: The right to denounce and, after compliance with the conditions prescribed by law, to acquire title to a mining claim in the island of Cuba is a right assured by the provisions of the mining law as it existed in Cuba prior to the American occupation and as it has continued to be in force since. In availing themselves of this right Cubans and foreigners alike merely exercise a universal right conceded to citizens of all countries. The fact that in the exercise of this right exclusive ownership of the mining property results is not sufficient to bring mining claims within the terms of the Foraker resolution, prohibiting the granting of special concessions or franchises in the island of Cuba during the continuance of American authority over the island. To hold otherwise would be to hold that by a provision appended to an appropriation bill passed by the Congress of the United States the law of the land for the island of Cuba could be modified to the serious prejudice of many individuals, Cubans and foreigners alike; and there is no reason to believe that it was the intention of Congress to withdraw rights and privileges previously existing in Cuba. Such action would be positively detrimental to the interests of the island in the highest degree. It is believed, therefore, that it is merely a ministerial duty on the part of civil governors of provinces to execute and deliver deeds to mining claims when the same have been properly denounced and all the conditions prescribed by the mining laws have been complied with by the locators. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, Chief of Staff. [Corrected copy.] No. 54. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF Cuba, The military governor of Cuba directs the publication of the following order: I. Monthly inspections of all charitable institutions and hospitals that are supported wholly or in part by the State will be made by an officer, preferably by a medical officer, charged with this duty by each department commander. The purpose of the inspection will be to determine, for the information of the department commander, whether or not the institutions are maintained in a thoroughly proper and efficient manner. If the department commander becomes satisfied from reports made to him that any institution is inefficiently managed, full report of the cause of inefficiency, with his recommendations, will be forwarded to these headquarters. II. Specified sums of public funds which have heretofore or may hereafter be allotted to hospitals and asylums for their proper maintenance, pursuant to instructions from these headquarters, will be invoiced for March and subsequent months to the official in charge of the institution by the provincial administrator of hacienda, and proper receipts will be taken for the funds invoiced; the official in charge will make the disbursements for the institution. III. Itemized bills in duplicate, specifying price per item, shall be required from all creditors, and the account will be stated for payment on Form 09, finance department, the creditor's bill to be attached to said form. The personnel of the institutions will be paid on roll (Form 05, finance department). Return of expenditures will be made monthly in duplicate by the official in charge of the institutions (account current, Form 010, finance department). One copy of the account current, supported by vouchers, will be sent to the auditor for the island of Cuba, Habana, Cuba; one copy, with vouchers, to be filed with the records of the institution and be a matter for monthly inspection and report. IV. Blank forms for the rendition of accounts will be furnished by the auditor on request being made to him direct. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Chief of Staff. No. 55. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF CUBA, The military governor of Cuba, upon the recommendation of the secretary of justice, directs me to announce the following resignation and appointments: I. The resignation of Vidal Morales y Morales as associate justice of the audiencia of Matanzas, due to his acceptance of the office of chief of archives of the island of Cuba, having been submitted, is hereby accepted. II. To be associate justice of the audiencia of Matanzas, Adolfo Plazaola y Cotilla, at present fiscal of the audiencia of Pinar del Rio. To be fiscal of the audiencia of Pinar del Rio, Jose Ignacio Travieso y Lopez, at present assistant fiscal of said court, vice Adolfo Plazaola y Cotilla. To be assistant fiscar of the audiencia of Pinar del Rio, Lorenzo Guerra, at present clerk of said court, vice Jose Ignacio Travieso y Lopez. To be clerk of the audiencia of Pinar del Rio, Jose Maria Velez Vazquez, vice Lorenzo Guerra. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Chief of Staff. No. 56. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF CUBA, The military governor directs the publication of the following: A board to consist of Maj. Eugene F. Ladd, U. S. V., treasurer of the island; W. H. Emery, auditor of the island; Ernesto Fonts y Sterling, auditor of internal revenues, is hereby constituted to formulate plans and devise blank forms necessary for the safe keeping and proper disposition of all property purchased by the State for any purpose and which rightfully belongs to it. The board will recommend upon whom the responsibility for this property shall rest and by whom returns for it shall be made, how often, and to whom. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Chief of Staff. No. 57. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF CUBA, The military governor of Cuba directs the publication of the following order: All insane persons in the island of Cuba who are held in prisons or other public institutions will be sent under proper protection to Habana for treatment in the hospital for the insane. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Chief of Staff. No. 58. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF CUBA, The military governor of Cuba, upon the recommendation of the secretary of justice, directs the publication of the following order: I. On and after the 15th day of February, 1900, there shall be established in the building known as the "police court" a special court to be designated “juzgado de guardia." The jurisdiction of this court shall be limited to criminal matters, and it shall hold its session only between the hours of 5 o'clock p. m. each day and 8 o'clock a. m. of the day following. II. The judges of instruction and the municipal judges of Habana shall sit in this court consecutively, strictly in the order fixed by the dean among said judges, during the aforesaid hours. All substitutions of judges in holding this court are prohibited unless the judge whose turn it is to sit may not be able to serve on account of sickness, in which case his inability to serve must be attested beforehand, in proper time before the dean, by sworn certificate signed by two physicians as to the cause thereof. III. The dean of the judges of Habana will have charge of the installation of this court and make such arrangements relative to its establishment as may be necessary. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Chief of Staff. No. 59. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF Cuba, Upon the recommendation of the secretary of public instruction, the military governor directs the publication of the following order: The library of Matanzas, established by virtue of an agreement with the suppressed "diputación provincial" of date of December 7, 1898, is hereby announced as a public library, reserving to the depositors whatever rights they may possess for the deposits they have made and to the Institute of Matanzas the legal proprietorship of what constituted its private library on the date above mentioned. The civil governor of the province of Matanzas will take possession, temporarily, of the public library hereby established and will carry out the provisions of this decree. In order to decide the pending question in regard to the assistant librarian the civil governor will forward a report to these headquarters, in accordance with the laws now in force, for the consideration of the military governor, and meanwhile he will appoint provisionally an assistant librarian for said library. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Chief of Staff. No. 60. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF CUBA, The military governor of Cuba, upon the recommendation of the secretary of agriculture, commerce, and industries, directs the publication of the following order: I. The office of provincial inspector of forests is hereby constituted, whose duty it shall be to watch over the woods and forests belonging to the state throughout the island of Cuba and adjoining territory. II. The following appointments are made to date from February 10, 1900: To be provincial inspector of forests of the province of Habana, Antonio Varana y Miranda; to be provincial inspector of forests of the province of Pinar del Rio, Pedro Diaz y Molina; to be provincial inspector of forests of the provinces of Matanzas and Santa Clara, Juan Veloso; to be provincial inspector of forests of the province of Puerto Principe, Maximiliano Ramos; to be provincial inspector of forests of the Bayamo, Manzanillo, and Holguin districts, in the province of Santiago de Cuba, Jesus Rabi; to be provincial inspector of forests of the Guantanamo and Baracoa districts, in the province of Santiago de Cuba, Augustin Cebreco. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Chief of Staff. No. 61. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF CUBA, The military governor, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of public works, directs the publication of the following order: The Cuban Electric Company, the present concessionary of the railroad between Regla and Guanabacoa, known as "La Prueba Railroad," is hereby authorized to substitute the electric system known as the "double aerial trolley system" for the steam motive power now in use on its lines and to extend its lines in accordance with the concession granted it on July 25, 1896, and to perform such provisional work as is necessary for carrying into effect the proposed change in the system of motive power, subject to the following provisions: I. All work shall be executed in strict accordance with the plan submitted by the company and approved by the secretary of public works. II. All modifications to the plan which may become necessary to introduce during the progress of the work must receive the approval of the secretary of public works before being carried out. III. The work, while in course of execution, must not be allowed to interfere with or hinder the public service and traffic. IV. The right of way occupied by the railroad shall be kept in repair by and at the cost of the railroad company. V. The inspection and supervision of the work will be subject to the provisions of the railroad law on such matters; and whatever concerns ornamentation and the observance of other municipal ordinances shall be subject to the municipal authorities through their proper agents. The expense of these inspections and supervisions shall be borne by the company. VI. The company agrees to submit for approval the regulations concerning public security, it being understood with respect to speed that it shall not exceed 6 kilometers per hour within city limits. VII. This decree imposes no obligation upon the state; it is without detriment to the terms and conditions of the original concessions, without detriment to third parties, and leaves the right of property fully protected. ADNA R. CHaffee, Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Chief of Staff. No. 62. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF Cuba, Habana, February 12, 1900. The military governor of Cuba, upon the recommendation of the secretary of justice, directs the publication of the following order: So much of Paragraph XL, Order No. 80, series of 1899, as refers to the audiencia of Habana is amended to read as follows: The sum granted said audiencia for the purchase of material shall be $3,600 annually in lieu of the amount therein stated. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Chief of Staff. No. 63. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF CUba, The military governor, upon the recommendation of the secretary of finance, directs the publication of the following order: The personnel of the provincial and branch administrations of the department of finance shall be increased by one clerk (fourth class) and two assistant clerks in each of the provincial administrations of Pinar del Rio, Matanzas, Santa Clara, Puerto Principe, and Santiago de Cuba; one clerk (fifth class) and one assistant clerk (second class) in each of the branch administrations of Cardenas, Cienfuegos, Sagua la Grande, and Holguin; one assistant clerk (first class) in each of the branch administrations of Remedios, Trinidad, Manzanillo, Guantanamo, and Baracoa. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Chief of Staff. |