[146] Census Office Tabular Statement issued in 1911. Figures are for all boroughs of Greater New York, and include only establishments conducted under factory system. Building and similar industries and small establishments producing less than $500 worth of products a year are not counted. [147] Paragraph 373, Acts Punished As War Treason: Rules of Land Warfare, published for the information and government of the armed land forces of the United States, April 25, 1914. [148] “A town surrounded by detached forts is considered jointly with such forts as an indivisible whole, as a defended place. A place that is occupied by a military force or through which such a force is passing, is a defended place.”--Bombardments, Assaults and Sieges, Rules of Land Warfare, U. S. A. [149] Office of Naval Intelligence, July 1, 1914. [150] Practical completion of battery construction and armament, power plants, fire control, searchlight installation and supply of ammunition reported by Chief of Coast Artillery, September 19, 1914. [151] Congress has appropriated comparatively little for the needs of Guantanamo Harbor. [152] Usually one of the first orders given to the occupants of occupied territory. [153] The practice laid down for our own army and followed in the Insular campaigns. [154] Paragraph 301, Rules of Land Warfare, U. S. A., 1914. [155] This is one of the rules accepted among all nations and followed by all armies. [156] Issued during the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria and cited by recent writers as acknowledged precedents. [157] “While a military government continues as an instrument of warfare, used to promote the objects of invasion, its powers are practically boundless.”--Magoon, Law of Civil Government under Military Occupation, U. S. Bureau of Insular Affairs. [158] Table 4, 13th Census, Volume 8. The Metropolitan District, as referred to in this sense, comprises Greater New York and the New Jersey manufacturing counties that contain Newark, Bayonne, Paterson, Hackensack, Passaic, Rutherford, etc. [159] Spaight, an authority, says that “practically everything under the sun” may be requisitioned and cites the case of a boot-jack being demanded for army use. See quotation and rulings of U. S. Army. [160] Under Hague Rule, Article LIII, it is held that “everything susceptible of military use” may be requisitioned, and modern army practice defines this as meaning anything from telegraph wire to canal boats. [161] Not a large sum as compared with some imposts laid on quite small and unimportant towns in wars during the past century. One such levy was $1,000,000 from one town in one day, according to European writers. [162] See case of seizure by Major General Otis of $100,000 from Philippine bankers, being money owned by insurgents and payable on presentation of a draft held by insurgents. Report, Charles E. Magoon, Law Officer, Division of Insular Affairs, 1902.