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Excerpt from Annual Reports of the War Department, Vol. 1 of 2: For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1900; Report of the Military Governor of Cuba on Civil Affair Sir: This office has had three incumbents during the fiscal year from July 1, 1899, to June 30, 1900. They were Senores Desvernine, Varona, and the undersigned. However, the writer, having served the office of subsecretary with the two former ones, he is in a condition to give immediate and direct information of the transactions of this department. The principal event was the application of the order issued by the President of the United States, in which, by virtue of the authority vested in him as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, he directed that during the maintenance of the military government of the United States in the island of Cuba and all islands west of the seventy-fourth degree west longitude, evacuated by Spain, there be created and maintained the offices of auditor of the island, one assistant auditor for auditing the accounts of the department of customs, and one assistant auditor for auditing the accounts of the department of posts, whose duties were to audit all the accounts of the island. Later on, at the request of this office, the assistant auditorship of the department of internal revenues was created. By the same order the office of treasurer of the island was created, which should he filled by the appointment thereto of an officer of the Regular Army of the United States, whose duties were to receive and keep all moneys arising from the revenues of the island, and to disburse or transfer the same only upon warrants issued by the general auditor and countersigned by the military governor. The appointment of those officials and the rules and instructions necessary to carry into effect the provisions of the order were to be issued by the Secretary of War, in Washington. Pursuant to those provisions the Department of War issued the so-called rules and instructions of May 11, 1899, which, with slight deviations, are the ones that now rule the management of public moneys here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."