RATES                         MONTHLY PAY
Navy Coxswains                  $ 15.00
Navy Seamen                       12.00
Navy Ordinary Seamen              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 Rico, under the supervision and subject to the approval of the Governor and Executive Council of the Island.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D.C., April 29, 1901.