C. McC. Reeve,
Colonel 13th Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry and Chief of Police. 
Aug. 22d. 1898.

Office Chief of Police.

Manila, P. I.

Order No. 2.

1.  The following is published for the information of the police of this city: 

2.  Bulletin hoards will be kept in all stations and all orders issued from this office will be posted thereon.

3.  Armed native and Spanish soldiers must be disarmed before being allowed to pass through gates, either way.

4.  Arrest drunk and disorderly persons.

5.  Spanish officers are allowed to wear their side arms.

6.  Commanding officers will have their respective districts patroled at least once each hour during the day and night.

7.  Shoes must be blacked and all brasses bright and shining at all times.

8.  Be courteous in your contact with both natives and Spaniards and see that all soldiers of other commands observe this rule.

9.  Particular attention must be given by men at the gates to the saluting of officers in passing through, and particularly so to the general officers.

Ed. S. Bean, Major 13th Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and Inspector of Police.  Aug. 22d, 1898.

Approved, Reeve, Colonel 13th Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry and Chief of Police.

Headquarters of the Provost-Marshal and Military Commandant.

Adjutant-General’s Office, City of Manila, P. I., August 22nd, 1898.

General Orders, No. 3.

Colonel McC.  Reeve, 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, is hereby directed to relieve the Commandante of the Guardia Civil Veterana of his functions, and will take possession of his office and will employ such officers and soldiers of his regiment as may be necessary for the adequate police protection of this city.

By Command of Brigadier-General MacArthur,
Provost-Marshal-General and Military Commandant,
Harry C. Hale,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

Order No. 3.

Office Chief of Police.  Manila, P.I.

To Commanding Officer.

Stations.

Notify all livery stables and other places in your districts, depositing large quantities of manure and other refuse in the streets, that they must cart it away daily, themselves.

Failure to do so will result in the arrest of the offending party.

Ed. S. Bean, Major 13th Minnesota Volunteers, and Inspector of Police.

August 22d, 1898.

Approved

Reeve, Colonel 13th Minnesota Volunteers, and Chief of Police.

Headquarters Department of the Pacific and Eighth Army Corps.

Manila, Philippine Islands, August 22nd, 1898.

General Orders, No. 8.

I. For the maintenance of law and order in those portions of the Philippines occupied or controlled by the Army of the United States, and to provide means to promptly punish infraction of the same, Military Commissions and Provost Courts, composed and constituted in accordance with the laws of war, will be appointed from time to time as occasion may require.