File No. 8327/3–4.
Chargé Tarler to
the Secretary of State.
American Legation,
Habana, September 29,
1908.
No. 773.]
Sir: For the information of the Public Health
and Marine Hospital Service, Treasury Department, I have the honor to
inclose in duplicate copy of the provisional governor’s decree, No. 935,
issued on the 26th instant, appropriating $100,000 to carry on the
sanitary service in the municipalities, especially the campaign against
yellow fever.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure 1.—Translation.]
Habana, September 26,
1908.
[From the Official Gazette, Sept. 28, 1908.]
Gobireno Provisional.
Decree No. 935.]
Whereas it is necessary to continue preventative work against yellow
fever in the Republic, I, Charles E. Magoon, by virtue of the
authority vested in rue as provisional governor of Cuba,
Resolve, That the sum of $100,000 is hereby
appropriated from the balance in the treasury, to carry on the
sanitary services in municipalities, and for material and personal
services required for the special work against yellow fever in the
localities where necessary.
Charles B. Magoon,
Provisional Governor.
[Inclosure 2.—Translation.]
Habana, September 27,
1908.
[From the Official Gazette, Sept. 28, 1908.]
Decree No. 938.]
Whereas the Government has received information that in the city of
Sancti Spiritus, Province of Santa Clara, and at the time that a
political meeting was taking place, a serious disturbance of order
occurred, resulting in the death of one man and in the wounding of
others;
Whereas the Government deems proper, in order that the investigation
may be promptly conducted and the facts ascertained, in order that
the proper liability may be enforced against the violators of the
law, to detail a special judge to go to said city and continue the
preliminary proceedings already instituted:
Therefore availing myself of the powers vested in me,
I Resolve, To appoint Mr. José Manuel Guerrero
y Dueñas, judge of examination of the western district of this city
to proceed, as judge on a special detail, to Sancti Spiritus, with
the subordinate personnel that he may consider necessary and
continue the conduction of the preliminary proceedings referred to
and to give him jurisdiction to act throughout the territory of the
Republic, and instructing him to leave for said city to-night.
Charles E. Magoon,
Provisional Governor.
Manuel Landa,
Acting Head of the Department of Justice.
