A convent at Santa Ana, Manila, occupied from February to August, 1899, rent in the sum of $210, and damages $200. I am of the opinion that these sums should be paid.

The Franciscan hospital at Santa Cruz, Laguna, occupied from April 1, 1899, to September 30, 1902. The foregoing time of occupancy is taken from the claim made by the Franciscans, but the board determined the occupancy to have been from January 1, 1901, until October 31, 1902; rent at the rate of $25 per month for twenty-two months, $550; no damages. I am of the opinion that this sum should be paid.

The Franciscan hospital and rest house at Naga, occupied for three years; rent at the rate of $50 per month, amounting to $1,800; no damages. I am of the opinion that this sum should be paid.

The Augustinian Orphan Asylum at San Felipe Neri (the title being in the name of the Compania Agricola de Ultramar), occupied from 1899 to December 22, 1902 (forty-five and one-half months' rent claimed); rent at the rate of $150 per month for the time claimed amounts to $6,825. I am of the opinion that this amount should be paid.

As before stated, the board recommends that payment be made to the Recoleto order for the cattle captured from them by the insurgents and recaptured and eaten by us. The amount recommended for payment, $4,877.50, is identical with that recommended by the board of officers on claims, and I am of the opinion that it should be paid.

The foregoing represent all the favorable recommendations made by the board.

In the following cases the board, for the causes stated, have reported unfavorably on the claims:

Destruction, as an act of war, of the church and convent at Guadalupe, Rizal (Augustinian). Claim for $238,000.

Destruction by insurgents of Industrial School at Malabon, Rizal. Claim, $109,350.

Loss of cattle by Recoleto order in Mindoro taken by insurgents. $80,500.

Claim,

Destruction by insurgents of college at Guinobatan, Albay. Claim, $75,000. Rental and damage to convent in Sampaloc, Manila, presented through error. The following summary in tabular form shows the sums recommended for payment by the board, with the slight modification heretofore indicated. It may be here stated that the amount claimed by the religious orders is $694,554.59:

It is believed that there is no existing appropriation from which the foregoing sum can be paid, and it is therefore recommended that the Congress be requested to make the necessary appropriation.

Very respectfully,

The SECRETARY OF WAR.

GEO. B. DAVIS, Judge-Advocate-General.

(Indorsement:) M. S. 1107524.

Advocate-General.

1908. 10695-189.

Views of J. A. Gen'l. April 10, 1906. Judge

Report. War Department, Office of the Secretary. Nov. 23,

The bill, as amended, appropriates $49,372.50, the amount recommended by the board on church claims.

60TH CONGRESS, Į HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 2d Session.

MONUMENT TO POCAHONTAS AT JAMESTOWN, VA.

JANUARY 27, 1909.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. THOMAS, of North Carolina, from the Committee on the Library, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany S. 4453.]

The Committee on the Library, to whom was referred the bill (S. 4453) entitled "An act to aid in the erection of a monument to Pocahontas at Jamestown, Virginia," respectfully report the same, with the recommendation that it do pass.

As the report of the Senate on the bill is very full, it is practically embodied in the following report:

As indicated by its title, the purpose of the bill is to aid in the erection of a suitable memorial at Jamestown, Va., to the Indian princess, Pocahontas. The object of erecting this monument is to attest something of the appreciation of the American people of the heroism and unselfish devotion of that brave, gentle, and humane Indian princess, who saved the life of John Smith, and thus saved the first permanent English colony in America from utter ruin and destruction.

The Pocahontas Memorial Association, composed of earnest and patriotic men and women, principally the latter, has been formed, and the members of it are doing all in their power to see that Pocahontas shall have fitting remembrance. The association has secured the services of an artist of rare ability, and has adopted a design of his execution, which has culminated in a completed statue which is an inspiration in its representation of the carrying out of a high and generous idea. A suitable site has also been selected, overlooking the James River, upon the ground occupied by the first settlers, and where the great and beneficent service was performed.

The work on the statue and pedestal has progressed until they are almost completed, and the total cost for their completion and erection in a suitable manner upon the proposed site, according to the terms of the contract between the association and the artist who has had charge of the work, is $10,000. Of this amount, the sum of $4,450 has already

been raised by the association through membership dues, by donation, by the sale of articles, and in various other ways, and paid to the artist, thus leaving a balance due of $5,550, which the association feels it is absolutely impossible for it to raise without aid from Congress. Ten thousand dollars is a modest sum for the completion and erection of a monument at all commensurate with the subject, and an event so great and far-reaching in its beneficent effects, and the association is fortunate in having secured such a fine piece of artistic work for this sum. To aid them in the accomplishment of this unremunerative and meritorious work, the association has asked the sum of $5,000 provided for in the Senate bill. They propose by their voluntary efforts to donate and secure, in addition to the $4,450, the further sum of $550, and pay it to the artist before any part of the $5,000 asked for in the bill is received; also, to raise whatever balance may be needed to care for and maintain the monument after it is erected. They pledge themselves to the further care and protection of the monument without any charge upon the United States.

It is carefully provided in the bill that the money appropriated shall be expended for the sole purpose of erecting said monument and only upon the vouchers of a bonded officer, which vouchers are required to be approved by the Auditor for the State Department before payment is made, and that the design of the monument and the site upon which it is to be erected shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, and satisfactory vouchers shall have been presented to him showing that the said association has paid an equal sum of $5,000 on said monument, and the site therefor shall have been donated, granted, or otherwise set apart, before any of the appropriation provided for shall be paid, with the further express provision and understanding that the association shall properly care for the monument and the United States shall be free from all responsibility therefor.

To this report is appended a copy of the petition of the Pocahontas Memorial Association, marked "Exhibit 1," taken from Report No. upon the bill in the Senate before its passage:

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EXHIBIT 1.

THE PETITION OF THE POCAHONTAS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION TO CONGRESS.

The Pocahontas Memorial Association, incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, was organized for the purpose of erecting a statue to the gentle Indian princess on Jamestown Island in recognition of the great services she rendered the infant colony during the stormy years from 1607 to the close of her short life in 1616. She twice saved them from massacre, and for two winters preserved them from starvation by her supplies of corn and game, brought every few days; and the peace her father made with the whites remained unbroken throughout the life of Powhatan. In the words of Captain Smith's petition to Queen Anne (of Denmark), the wife of King James I:

"Pocahontas, next under God, was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine, and utter confusion, which, if in those times, had once been dissolved Virginia might have lain as it was at our first arrival to this day."

The association laid their plan before the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (which owns Jamestown Island and is incorporated on the same lines as the Ladies' Association of Mount Vernon) and asked permission to acquire

a site.

The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities replied that their charter did not permit them to sell or donate sites, but all monuments erected with their permission on the island were taken into their perpetual care and were maintained by them at their expense, as provided in the deed that passed between them and the associations erecting memorials. (See Colonial Dames, Daughters of the American Revolution, etc.)