Historical Documents - Office of the Historian

Dominican Republic:

Contents

Political and economic affairs (Documents 49–74)
- Informal discussions of policy with former Provisional President Henriquez y Carvajal—Reports of the military governor—Establishment of an Advisory Council of Dominicans (Documents 49–74)
Financial affairs (Documents 75–86)
- Refusal of the Department of State to consider the customs receivership as extended by the 1918 bond issue—Provision of additional funds for amortization of the bonds—Transfer of control of internal revenues from the receivership to the military government (Documents 75–86)
Tariff revision (Documents 87–93)
- Transfer to the customs collection of surcharges formerly collected as internal revenue—Appointment of a tariff commission with instructions to draft reduced rates—Publication of the revised tariff (Documents 87–93)