ISLANDS.

MANILA, December 8, 1902.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

No. 113,

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The distinguishing flag of the Coast Guard and Transportation Service shall be white with a blue border one and five-tenths inches in length for every foot of length of the flag. On the white ground there shall be a yellow spread eagle, holding in its claws an anchor, the shank of which is nearly horizontal.

WM. H. TAFT,

Civil Governor.

ISLANDS-A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas it is provided by section seventy-two of an Act of the United States Philippine Commission, passed on July thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one, entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Manila," that the said Act shall "take effect upon the proclamation of the Civil Governor to be issued within thirty days after the passage of the Act":

Now, therefore, I, William H. Taft, Civil Governor of the Philippine Islands, do hereby, by virtue of the authority in me vested by section seventy-two of the aforesaid Act, proclaim the seventh day of August, nineteen hundred and one, as the day on which the said Act passed July thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one, shall take effect.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Government of the Philippine Islands to be affixed.

Done at the city of Manila this fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and one.

By the Civil Governor :

A. W. FERGUSSON,

WM. H. TAFT.