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duties appertaining to the offices of civil government in said islands, will, in respect of such duties, report to the said Civil Governor.
The power to appoint civil officers, heretofore vested in the Philippine Commission, or in the Military Governor, will be exercised by the Civil Governor with the advice and consent of the commission.
The Military Governor of the Philippines is hereby relieved from the performance, on and after the said 4th day of July, of the civil duties hereinbefore described, but his authority will continue to be exercised as heretofore in those districts in which insurrection against the authority of the United States continues to exist, or in which public order is not sufficiently restored to enable provincial governments to be established under the instructions to the commission dated April 7th, 1900.
By the President:
(Signed)
Elihu Root,
Secretary of War.