Recourse to private letters to the Secretary of State or other officers of the Department of State upon topics relating to the official business of the consulate is disapproved.

Despatches should be written on one side only of single-sheet despatch paper.

All communications to the Department of State should be addressed to the Secretary of State.

Despatches regarded as especially of a reserved or secret nature should be conspicuously marked 'Confidential' on the top of the first page.

Under the provisions of Section 2 of this Act hereafter all reports required by law to be made by the governor or members of the executive council of Porto Rico to any official in the United States will be made to the War Department, and all matters pertaining to the government of Porto Rico are placed in the jurisdiction of that department.

The business of the department pertaining to civil government in Porto Rico is, pursuant to Section 87 of the Act of July 1, 1902, assigned to the Bureau of Insular Affairs.

Now, Therefore, I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the Act of Congress, approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, 'An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities,' do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, subject to all prior valid adverse claims, and set apart as a National Monument, all the tracts of land in the State of Oregon shown as the Oregon Caves National Monument on the diagram forming a part hereof.

The truth is that the gift of eloquence and speech which Governor Hughes has needs no practice, but I have to have a little.

One is almost carried off his feet before such an audience.

I am not a Catholic, but I have had in the last ten years a great deal to do with the Catholic Church.

I would be without that which makes a man if I did not appreciate to the full the kindly words of your distinguished Governor, and if I did not congratulate the State of New York on having a Governor who represents the highest ideals.