GENERAL ORDERS, No. 2. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, January 9, 1902. The following from the War Department is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, January 6, 1902. The United States having acquired by purchase from Adelaide M. Bray and husband and Charles W. Bray and wife, by deeds dated October 2, 1901, a tract of land situate at South Portland, in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, the same is hereby announced as an addition to the military reservation at Fort Preble, Maine. Said tract contains about 78,543 square feet and is bounded as follows: Beginning at the southeast corner of the tract of land announced as an addition to the military reservation at Fort Preble, Maine, in General Orders. No. 65, Adjutant General's Office, May 12, 1900; thence south 47° west, along said tract, five hundred twenty and ninety-six one-hundredths (520.96) feet, to the southwest corner of said tract; thence south 40° 58' east, along land now or formerly of Henry Wheeler, one hundred fifty and nine one-hundredths (150.09) feet: thence north 47° east five hundred twenty-six and twenty-nine one-hundredths (526.29) feet to said military reservation; thence north 43° west, by said reservation, one hundred and fifty (150) feet to the point of beginning. ELIHU ROOT. Secretary of War. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General, Major General, U. S. Army. GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, No. 4. ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, January 15, 1902, By direction of the Secretary of War, the following acts of The Hague Peace Conference which were proclaimed by the President on November 1, 1901, are published for the information and government of all concerned: 1. Convention between the United States and certain powers for the pacific settlement of international disputes. 2. Convention between the United States of America and certain powers for the adaptation to maritime warfare of the principles of the Geneva Convention of August 22, 1864. 3. Declaration to prohibit for the term of five years the launching of projectiles and explosives from balloons, and other new methods of a similar nature. 1.-CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CERTAIN POW ERS FOR THE PACIFIC DISPUTES. SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL Signed at The Hague July 29, 1899. Ratification advised by the Senate February 5, 1900. Ratified by the President of the United States April 7, 1900. Ratification deposited with the Netherlands Government September 4, 1900. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas a Convention for the pacific settlement of international disputes was concluded and signed on July 29, 1899, by the Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, China, Denmark, Spain, the United Mexican States, France, Great Britain and Ireland, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, |