It authorizes the investment of 221,275 pesos 50 cents to pay to Don Victor Sotta Frost sixty thousand blankets for the Army. Santiago, to December 20, 1901.-For the National Congress has given its approval to the following LEI PROJECT: Article first. Authorize the President of the Republic to invest up to the sum of two hundred and twenty-one thousand two hundred and seventy-five pesos fifty cents ($221,275.50), gold of eighteen pence, to pay to Don Victor Sotta Frost, the amount that is He owes his sixty thousand blankets, which he supplied to the Army in the years 1898 to 1899. ART. 2. The amount of three hundred and fourteen thousand eight hundred and twenty pesos ($314,820) that this office has paid to Mr. Don Victor Sotta Frost, according to the contract of the Army, has been declared to the Treasury of the Army's Jeneral Intrend. provision of blankets, from May 1898. I therefore hear the Council of State, I have had to approve it, and I therefore have to do so as I read from the Republic.-JerMAN RIESCO.-Beltran Mathieu.