All persons who, either by active aid or by honest submission, co-operate with the Government of the United States to give effect to these beneficent purposes will receive the reward of its support and protection.
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Then I felt constrained to convene the Congress in extraordinary session to devise revenues to pay the ordinary expenses of the Government.
The sum of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby allotted and set apart from the appropriation made for the benefit and Government of Puerto Rico by the Act of March 24, 1900
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enlist in the Insular Forte United States Navy, which is hereby established, not to exceed five hundred (500) Filipinos in the following ratings at the rates of pay indicated.
May it end without further bloodshed, and there be ushered in the reign of peace to be made permanent by a government of liberty under law!
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