Letter book, 1900.

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Letter book, 1900.

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Typed copies of MacArthur's official correspondence as military governor of the Philippines, concerning the administration of the insular government and its transition from military to civilian government. Letters discuss commissary affairs, customs, internal revenue, currency, budgets, banking, the judicial system, education, especially instruction in English, the Philippine Civil Service Board, sanitation, markets, bridges and highways, the reorganization of the auditing department, and the conflict of authority between MacArthur and William Howard Taft, head of the commission to restore civilian control.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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