839.00/2765: Telegram
The Commissioner in the Dominican Republic (Welles) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 29—4:12 a.m.]
65. My number 63, November 16, 11 a.m. My conferences with the two Presidential candidates and their advisers have resulted in a final agreement on the following points: (1) The method of re-constituting the Central Electoral Board and the provincial, municipal and precinct boards in such a manner as to afford ample guarantees to both parties; (2) the manner of arranging an even distribution of the following positions between the two parties of the governors, fiscales, members of the ayuntamientos, chiefs of municipal police and alcaldes pedañeos, all of these officials having either a direct participation in the electoral procedure or else a decisive influence, by reason of their position, during the electoral period (no neutral incumbents are affected); (3) agreement that a member of the Coalition Party will be appointed either to the Secretaryship of Justice and Public Instruction or the Secretaryship of Sanitation; (4) a definite agreement upon the detailed amendments to be made in the electoral law.
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