Note 9 — The Spanish Friars, After 1898
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In 1902 the Civil Governor of the Philippines, Mr. W. H. Taft, visited the United States, and on May 9 in that year he was commissioned by his Government to visit Rome on his way back to the Islands in order to negotiate the question of the friarsʼ lands with the Holy See. The instructions issued to him by the Secretary of War contain the following paragraphs, namely9:—