File No. 1199/222–223.
Minister McCreery
to the Secretary of State.
American Legation,
Santo
Domingo, July 25,
1907.
No. 25.]Sir: Referring to my telegram of the 22d
ultimoa stating that
the ratification of President Caceres, of the Dominican-American
convention, for exchange was mailed on the 20th ultimo, and referring to
my No. 15, of the 11th ultimo, showing the form of such ratification, I
have the honor to inform you that this ratification, with the protocol
of exchange of ratifications made in Washington July 8, 1907, was
published in the Gaceta Official of yesterday. (Copy and translation
inclosed.)
I confirm my telegram of to-day:
Santo Domingo, July 25, 1907.
Secstate, Washington:
The treaty as ratified by the Dominican President was published
in Official Gazette of yesterday, together with protocol of
exchange.
McCreery.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure.—Translation.]
ratification of dominican-american
convention by dominican president and protocol of
exchange.
[From Gaceta Oficial, July 24, 1907.]
The executive authority of the Dominican Republic.
To all to whom these presents
shall come, greeting:
Whereas a convention was signed in the city of Santo Domingo on the
eighth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seven, by the
plenipotentiaries of the Dominican Republic and the United States of
America, a true copy of which convention, in Spanish and English, is
word for word as follows. [Here follows copy of convention, in
Spanish and English.]
And whereas by a resolution of the third of May of the present year
the national congress approved said convention, the executive
authority of the Republic confirms and ratifies the aforesaid
convention in all and every one of its stipulations, as above
written, and promises that every article and clause thereof will be
inviolably observed.
In testimony whereof these presents are executed, sealed with the
seal of the Republic, and signed and countersigned in the city of
Santo Domingo the nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
1907.
Ramon Caceres,
President of the
Republic.
Countersigned:
E. Tejera.
[
seal.]
Minister
of Foreign Relations.
Protocol of exchange.
The undersigned plenipotentiaries having met with the object of
exchanging the ratifications of the convention signed between
the Dominican Republic and the United States on February 8,
1907, providing for the assistance of the United
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States in the collection of the
customs duties of the Dominican Republic and the application of
the said customs duties, and the ratifications of said
convention having been carefully compared and having been found
to exactly conform one with the other, the exchange was to-day
effected in the usual form.
In testimony whereof this protocol of exchange is signed and
sealed.
Done in
Washington
the 8th day of
July, 1907.
Emilio C. Joubert
.
[
seal.]
Robert Bacon
. [
seal.]
