William McKinley: “I, William McKinley, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions…”

Now I have the satisfaction to announce that the Congress just closed has reduced taxation in the sum of $41,000,000.

Then I felt constrained to convene the Congress in extraordinary session to devise revenues to pay the ordinary expenses of the Government.

This order to take effect on the first day of May, 1901.

It is hereby ordered that the unsurveyed portion of Eliza Island and Billingham Bay in section five (5), township thirty-six (36) north, range two (2) East Willamette meridian, Washington be, and it is hereby reserved for light-house…