THE CUBA REVIEW 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



PASSPORTS 



Hon. Wm. E. Gonzales, American minister 

 to Cuba, has made the following announce- 

 ment in relation to passports: 



"All passports issued by the Department 

 of State which have expired, or are about to 

 expire, cannot be extended for another six 

 months as heretofore, but the person holding 

 such passport must make application at any 

 American consulate in Cuba, or at the Ameri- 

 can legation in Havana for a new passport to 

 be issued by the Department of State and such 

 applicants must be identified and show such 

 papers as were required m the former applica- 

 tion for a passport. On receipt of the new 

 passport it will be mailed to applicant. 



"All emergency passports issued by the 

 American legation in Havana, must be pre- 

 sented to the collector of customs, at the port 

 by which Americans enter the United States, 

 for cancellation. The holders should execute 

 new passport applications before a clerk of a 

 federal or state court within the jurisdiction 

 of which they or their witnesses reside, if 

 they desire to go abroad again after they 

 have entered the United States. These ap- 

 plications will be sent to the Department of 

 State by the clerk ^ of the court, and if ap- 

 proved, departmental passports will be 

 mailed to the applicants. 



"WILLIAM E. GONZALES. 



American Minister." 



MATERNITY HOSPITALS 



The President of Cuba has signed a law pro- 

 viding $400,000 ior the erection of six mater- 

 mty hospitals, one m each province of the 

 island. Of this sum $100,000 is allotted tor 

 the hospital in the province of Havana and 

 $60,000 each for hospitals in the other 

 provinces. The money is to be appropriated 

 from the sum accruing to the state from 

 lottery prizes that are never claimed. 



DREDGING CLAIM 



President Menocal has authorized by a 

 decree the payment of claims amounting to 

 $230,324.31 to the Bowers Southern Dredging 

 Company. The payment, which is to be 

 made in 1917 treasury bonds, is for work 

 done on the Santa Catalina fiats in the bay 

 of Havana. 



COAL ADMINISTRATOR 



Alfred Gilbert Smith, president of the New 

 York and Cuba Mail SS. Company, has be- 

 come American coal administrator for Cuba, 

 in addition to the position he holds as Chair- 

 man of the Joint Committee on West Indies 

 Transportation of the War Trade Board. 



FLOUR AND LARD 



President Menocal has signed a decree 

 authorizing the town council of Sancti 

 Spiritus to deliver to the mayor of that town 

 the sum of $15,000 for the purchase of flour 

 and lard. 



The town treasury will be reimbursed from 

 the product of the sales of these articles, 

 which is to be deposited with the local de- 

 fense board by the merchants. 



RED CROSS 



At a meeting of the brokers of the Produce 

 Exchange it was decided to open a subscrip- 

 tion for the benefit of the Red Cross, the 

 amount obtained to be divided equally be- 

 tween the Cuban and the American organi- 

 zations and the poor of Havana. 



Immediately after the resolution was 

 adopted, the list was opened and $15,500 was 

 subscribed. 



LAND FOR NATIONAL UNIVERSITY 



By a presidential decree, the government 

 will lease 51,000 square meters of land be- 

 longing to the Misses Catalina and Carmen 

 Navarro de Zuaznabar, situated between the 

 old Pirotecnica and the Quinta de los Molinos, 

 comprising the San Nazario farm, for the 

 period of three years at an annual rental of 

 $10,000, payable monthly. 



The contract gives the government the 

 right to buy the land at any time before the 

 expiration of the lease at the price of $7 per 

 square meter, free of all encumbrances, the 

 purchase price payable in three equal pay- 

 ments a month apart and without interest. 

 - The land will be turned over to the national 

 university to be made use of as that institu- 

 tion sees fit. 



CUBAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 

 The second annual reunion of the Cuban. 

 Society of International Law opened Jan. 30, 

 to continue for three days. 



