Proclamation 441—Thanksgiving Day, 1899
10/24/1899
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This order to take effect on the first day of May, 1901.
The peace which we are pledged to leave to the Cuban people must carry with it the guaranties of permanence.
It is the constitutional method of ascertaining the public will.
It is hereby ordered that the unsurveyed portion of Eliza Island and Billingham Bay in section five (5), township thirty...