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At the Assembly he was elected a member 

 of the Commission that went to confer with 

 President McKinley, the Commission be- 

 ing composed of General Calixto Garcia, 

 President; Colonel Jose R. Villalon, Secre- 

 tary; Major General Jose Miguel Gomez, 

 Col. Manuel Sanguily and Doctor Jose A. 

 Gonzalez Lanuza. At the return of the 

 Commission from the U. S. and after the 

 dissolution of the General Assembly at 

 the end of the war, Villalon served as assist- 

 ant Engineer under the then Major W. M. 

 Black in charge of the State Department 

 at Havana; later he was appointed Chief 

 Engineer of Matanzas and Santa Clara, 

 etc., etc. 



In 1902, at the expiration of the Amer- 

 ican Intervention, Col. Villalon accepted 

 the professorship of Higher Algebra and 

 Calculus at the University ot Havana till 

 May 20, 1 913, when President Menocal ap- 

 pointed him Secretary of Public Works, a 

 position which he still occupies. 



He is a member of the American Society 

 of Civil Engineers, of the American In- 

 stitute of Mining Engineers, of the Acad- 



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