I read No. 1.997.-As soon as the National Congress has given its approval to the following LEI PROJECT: Single article.-It is granted, by grace, for the purposes of his retirement, to the captain of frigate don Alberto Fuentes M., the nine years, two months i eighteen days which has remained separate from the Navy's service. 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. Santiago, thirty i one of August of a thousand nine hundred seven.-Pedro Montt.-Alejandro Lira.