No. 168. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF CUBA, The military governor of Cuba directs me to announce the following appointment: To be associate justice of Puerto Príncipe, Manuel Nicholás Hernandez, vice José Batista y Varona, whose appointment is revoked, he having failed to qualify as prescribed by law. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, Chief of Staff. No. 170. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION of Cuba, The military governor of Cuba directs me to announce the following appointments: MATANZAS. To be judge of primera instancia, Mercado district, Matanzas, Raul Trelles y Govín. To be judge of primera instancia, Palacio district, Matanzas, José Sixto Vasconcellos y Rivera. To be judge of primera instancia, Cárdenas, Benito José Rodriguez Maribona y Núñez. To be judge of primera instancia, Colón, Evarista G. Avellanal y Bango. To be judge of primera instancia, Alacranes (Alfonso XII), José Aurelio Pérez y Díaz. SANTIAGO DE CUBA. To be substitute justices of the audiencia of Santiago de Cuba, Manuel Yero Sagol, Luis Fernández Marcané. To be judge of primera instancia, northern district (Santiago de Cuba), Fernando Salcedo Bonastra. To be judge of primera instancia, southern district (Santiago de Cuba), José Vicente Tapia y Puenta. To be judge of primeria instancia, Holguin, Edgardo Díaz Pujol. To be judge of primera instancia, Baracoa, Rodrigo Portuondo y Miyares. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, Chief of Staff. No. 172. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION of Cuba, The military governor of Cuba directs me to announce the following appointments: PROVINCE OF PINAR DEL RIO. San Juan y Martinez.-To be mayor, Rafael Baster. To be fourth assistant mayor, Alberto Valdés Brito. ADNA R. CHAFI EE, Brigadier-General, Chief of Staff. No. 175. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION Of Cuba, The military governor of Cuba directs me to announce the following appointments: CONSOLACION DEL SUR, PROVINCE OF PINAR DEL RIO. To be mayor, Antonio Ferrer. To be first assistant mayor, Justo Sanjudo. To be third assistant mayor, Fidel Crespo Díaz. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, Chief of Staff. No. 178. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF CUBA, The military governor of Cuba directs me to aunounce the following transfers in the assignment of judges of the first instance appointed by decree No. 151, August 30, 1899: Cristóbal Bidegaray Erbiti from Remedios to Trinidad. No. 180. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, Chief of Staff. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF CUBA, The military governor of Cuba directs me to announce the following appointment and resignation: To be secretary of the civil government of the province of Pinar del Río, Cipriano Valdés. The resignation of Santiago García Cañizares as mayor of Sancti Spíritus, province of Santa Clara, having been submitted, is hereby accepted. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, Chief of Staff. No. 184. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF CUBA, Habana, September 30, 1899. The military governor of Cuba directs me to announce the following appointments: PROVINCE OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA. To be first assistant mayor of Palma Soriano, Arcadio Isaac Espinosa. To be second assistant mayor of Jiguaní, Julián Liz Collazo. PROVINCE OF HABANA. To be second assistent mayor of El Cano, Fernando Vigoa Godínez, vice Manuel Felipe Antunes, resigned. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, Chief of Staff. No. 185. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION Of Cuba, The military governor of Cuba directs me to announce the following appointments and resignation: I. PROVINCE OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA. Songo. To be first assistant mayor, Juan Fernández Carmenati. San Luis.-To be first assistant mayor, Ambrosio Duany. II. The resignation of Florentino Hernández y Hernández as mayor of Macuriges, province of Matanzas, having been submitted, is hereby accepted. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, Chief of Staff. No. 186. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION Of Cuba, The military governor of Cuba directs me to announce the following appointments: PROVINCE OF HABANA. Ceiba del Agua.-To be mayor, José Castillo. To be first assistant mayor, Juan de Dios Hernández. To be first assistant mayor, Ignacio Morales. To be second assistant mayor, Fernando González Osma. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Brigadier-General, Chief of Staff. REPORT OF BRIG. GEN. ADNA R. CHAFFEE, U. S. V., CHIEF OF STAFF. Maj. Gen. JOHN R. BROOKE, Military Governor of Cuba. HABANA, CUBA, October 20, 1899. SIR: Having had general supervision over the allotment of the revenues of Cuba for disbursement, I have caused to be prepared several tables with a view to showing, in as clear a manner as practicable, the receipts for the eight months ending August 31 (Tables A, B, C, D, and E), and follow them with other tables, showing in considerable detail the disposition made of the funds under several heads of appropriation-the amounts allotted to military departments, to the Division of Cuba, and to cities and towns, so far as known. The tables referred to are: Exhibit A. Consolidated statement of receipts and disbursements for eight months. Exhibit B. Statement of collections and expenses at the various custom-houses (16) on the island. Exhibit C. Statement of receipts and disbursements of internal revenues. Exhibit D. Statement of receipts and disbursements of the postal service. Exhibit E. Statement of receipts and disbursements of the telegraph service. Exhibits F, G, H, and I. Statement of allotments made to the military departments as at present organized, showing amount of appropriations under the several appropriation heads and the places in the departments where funds were expended, so far as known. Exhibit J. Similar for expenditures of funds not specially appliable to any military department, and therefore charged to the Division of Cuba. Exhibit K. Statement showing allotments made to cover deficits in municipal budgets and to purchase sanitary appliances. Exhibit L. Recapitulation. On January 1 no one could tell the probable receipts from customs for the month, nor could anyone predict what the receipts would be for any subsequent month. The amount of internal revenue to be collected was also unknown, but from the condition of the island it was assumed that but little would be obtainable from that source for several months. The budget for the civil service had to be formed, which was not done until February, and when submitted provided for the salaries of officials, employees, and the usual office material only, and for these on a scale considerably reduced from former lines, necessarily tentative as regards number of employees, because of the disorganized condition existing at the time. Disbursements for the public service in other respects were reserved for military supervision. There was nothing at hand to guide in making appropriations for public improvements, as the phrase is generally understood. To afford relief to an army of idle and hungry persons was, under the circumstances existing at the beginning of the year, especially important-a first consideration. Under the circumstances, too, no project for public benefit whereby to give employment to many men was in view of a more needful sort, nor one more easily supervised by the military, than sanitation of cities and towns and the repair of streets and roads in their vicinity. On January 7 the division commander directed that the following instructions be sent to all department commanders: COMMANDING GENERAL, HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF CUBA, Department of Pinar del Rio, Pinar del Rio, Cuba. GENERAL: I am directed by the major-general commanding the division to invite your attention to the reported need of food by a large number of people of the island. He desires that you inquire into this matter at once and investigate fully the condition of the people as regards the matter of food supply. In all cases where you may find destitution, you will immediately relieve it. In this connection, your attention is invited to the inclosed extract from General Orders, No. 110, AdjutantGeneral's Office, Washington, August 1, 1898, specifying the ration to be issued to Cuban destitutes. You will please understand that all able-bodied men needing food will be given work, as soon as practicable, on the repair of roads and sanitary and other public works. They will be paid fair wages in United States money, but this can not now be paid weekly, for the reason that the funds are not available. It is not proposed to furnish work to those people who remain in Cuba and retain their allegiance to Spain. Men who are offered work and refuse to work should not be fed. On investigation of this matter you will show by timely estimates of funds the necessities of your department, remembering, however, that the funds for this and for other purposes are limited at present. You will exercise a wise discretion in the distribution of food. It is better to make an error on the side of humanity always. Medical attendance and medicines will always be afforded and given where necessary. Please keep these headquarters fully advised as to all conditions in your department at all times, and to this end you will acquaint yourself with affairs by an active use of the means at hand. For the present, and until proper arrangements are made for remission of customs revenues to Habana or disbursements of same at port of collection, subcollectors must understand that they will be held to a strict accountability under executive order of December 9, 1898, to the collector of customs for the island for all funds received by them. Very respectfully, ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Major-General, U. S. V., Chief of Staff. And on January 18 the following by telegraph: [Telegram.] HEADQUARTERS DIVISION Of Cuba, COMMANDING GENERAL, Department of Habana Please send as early as possible estimate showing salaries for January of all civil officials in your department, giving class and number in each, with rate of pay per month heretofore allowed in gold or silver, or both. Include also in estimate all indebtedness you will have to meet at end of month, and specify in detail for what incurred. No project involving payment of money derived from customs revenues will be entered upon without first securing approval of division commander, unless it be absolutely necessary sanitary work. Much sanitary work ought to be done by men without other employment in return for food. Make early estimate for February, in which include projects with cost, if you have any in view. Acknowledge receipt. By command of Major-General Brooke: ADNA R. CHAFFEE, February 2 the following letter: Chief of Staff. HEADQUARTERS DIVISION OF CUBA, COMMANDING GENERAL, Department of Habana (And all other departments in Division of Cuba). SIR: The major-general commanding enjoins upon department commanders the strictest vigilance and care in the disbursement of funds on this island derived from customs and turned over to them for maintenance of the civil service in their commands. Absolutely correct and detailed accounts of receipts and expenditures must be kept, and receipts taken for every expenditure. Schedules of account should be sent to these headquarters monthly for audit. As it is undoubtedly true that these receipts and expenditures will be made the subject of rigid investigation in the future, care must be taken that all accounts shall be clear and complete, and for proper service. Very respectfully, W. V. RICHARDS, Assistant Adjutant-General. Because of the nature of his duty and his many responsibilities as military governor, it is necessary that the division commander have full control of the general administration of the revenues of Cuba. Suggestions that the collections at customs-houses within the department limits be a basis for appropriations did not meet with approval; nor that the division commander accept for the general treasury a specified per cent of the collections in the departments. Neither was it thought advisable to allot what might be deemed necessary to several departments and turn the remainder over to one. It was determined, as being the best course to pursue, to adopt the not unusual method of monthly allotments, and, all circumstances considered from an unprejudiced standpoint, the military governor exercising his best judgment regarding public necessities, time, and place, and to meet special demands, the method of monthly allotments on approved estimates is only a fair and proper exercise of authority as military governor of the island. It is believed, too, that a freer use of the revenues has thereby been secured, the specially controlling check on expenditures being the purpose to maintain a general reserve of about one month's collections. Whether mistaken or not, it was assumed that superior authority would expect that the military governor would have some knowledge of the disposition of the revenues, therefore the requirement that the estimate should be made in considerable detail. Exhibits F, G, H, I, and K are based on estimates which have been approved by the military governor of Cuba. Step by step sanitation of cities and towns, repairs of streets and public buildings have become the chief source of expenditures for public improvement, so much so that to now undertake other public improvements on a scale of importance and involving expenditures of large sums of the revenues it will be necessary to check materially the current of expenditures flowing in the direction stated. Estimates show that large sums of money have been expended in sanitation, repair, alteration, and improvement of public buildings of Cuba, state and municipal, but principally state, which were everywhere found to be in a horribly unsanitary condition, and nearly all of them tainted, if not actually, then through report, with yellow fever developments within the walls. Very thorough sanitation was but an ordinary precaution. Extensive repairs and, in some cases, extensive alterations were necessary because of long-standing neglect and for the introduction of modern conveniences. The coast cities for obvious reasons have received most attention, and the greatest benefit from the state's bounty expended for sanitation and repair. The officers of the army, on whom has fallen the burden of supervision of the work, are chiefly located in and about the cities of the coast. But many of the interior towns have been assisted with funds to employ labor and purchase implements for sanitation, as it has everywhere been found that if any town ever possessed animals, carts, and the necessary implements for public use these, as other property, were destroyed during the war. In further explanation of appropriations, it should be understood that under the general head "Rural guard and administration" are charged sums allotted for the |