Dominican Republic that that Government contract a loan for $1,500,000 in accordance with the terms of the contract with the National City Bank of New York. In order to evidence this agreement on the part of the two Governments, it is proposed that formal rotes be exchanged between the Foreign Office and the Legation. Therefore when the Minister for Foreign Affairs shall have addressed to you a note enclosing a copy of the proposed contract, modified as above indicated but otherwise as laid before the Department, and shall have officially asked that this Government agree to the proposed increase of the Dominican public debt as provided in the said convention, and shall have informed you that the Dominican Government agrees that the proceeds of the loan shall be disbursed subject to such supervision as this Government may indicate, you will acknowledge receipt and say: The Government of the United States, pursuant to the terms of the Convention between the United States and the Dominican Republic of February 8, 1907, hereby agrees with the Government of the Dominican Republic that the Government of the Dominican Republic may increase its public debt to the amount of one million five hundred thousand dollars in accordance with the terms of the proposed contract with the National City Bank of New York, a copy of which has been transmitted to this Legation; provided, however, that all advances or disbursements of the proceeds of this loan shall be made only by check or order of the Minister of Finance of the Dominican Republic specifically reciting the proposed application of the disbursement, such check or order to be countersigned as providing for a proper expenditure by the Minister or Secretary of the Legation of the United States in the Dominican Republic, and by a person designated for this purpose by the Receiver General of Dominican Customs. You will withhold exchange of notes until a slight modification in the coupon note desired by the National City Bank shall have been cabled to you, today or tomorrow, for your information. ΚΝΟΣ. File No. 839.51/963. The Secretary of State to the American Minister. [Telegram-Paraphrase.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, February 27, 1913. The Department is informed that the National City Bank is proposing the following modifications in the text of the loan note and has submitted them to the Dominican Government: In paragraph 1 after the words "and to pay interest thereon" the paragraph as amended should read "from the date hereof until the principal of this note is paid at the rate of six per centum per annum semiannually on the first days of July and January in each year. Until the maturity of this note such interest shall be paid only upon the presentation and surrender of the annexed interest coupons as they severally become payable." In paragraph 3 after the words "from 1 to 1500, both inclusive," the paragraph as amended should read "issued in conformity to the Convention between the United States of America and the Dominican Republic ratified July 8, 1907, the payment of the principal 140322°-F R 1913-30 and interest of which notes is secured by the pledge by the Republic of its customs revenues subject to an existing charge thereon securing the $20,000,000 Five per cent Customs Administration Sinking Fund Gold Loan of the Republic under and pursuant to the terms of the said convention between the United States of America and the Dominican Republic." And so on. You may proceed with the exchange of the diplomatic notes as instructed, when these modifications have been agreed upon by the Republic and the Bank. ΚΝΟΣ. File No. 839.51/967. The American Chargé d'Affaires to the Secretary of State. [Telegram-Paraphrase.] AMERICAN LEGATION. Santo Domingo, March 6, 1913. The Minister exchanged notes with the Minister for Foreign Af fairs on March 1 and has taken an original of the loan contract to you. Claims are being presented for payment, as the matter is considered to be settled. CURTIS. File No. 839.51/967. The Secretary of State to the Secretary of War. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, March 10, 1913. SIR: I have the honor to inform you that on March 1, 1913, the Minister for Foreign Affairs for the Dominican Republic addressed a note to the American Minister at Santo Domingo City, enclosing a copy of a contract made with the National City Bank of New York providing for a loan to the Dominican Republic of $1,500,000, and officially asked that the Government of the United States agree to the proposed increase of the Dominican public debt as provided in the Convention of February 8, 1907, between the two Governments, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs informed the American Minister that the Dominican Government agreed that the proceeds of the loan should be disbursed subject to such supervision as the Government of the United States might indicate. The American Minister in acknowledging this note informed the Minister for Foreign Affairs, pursuant to the instructions of this Department, that: The Government of the United States, pursuant to the terms of the Conven tion between the United States and the Dominican Republic of February 8, 1907, hereby agrees with the Government of the Dominican Republic that the Government of the Dominican Republic may increase its public debt to the amount of one million five hundred thousand dollars in accordance with the terms of the proposed contract with the National City Bank of New York, a copy of which has been transmitted to this Legation; provided, however, that all advances or disbursements of the proceeds of this loan shall be made only by check or order of the Minister of Finance of the Dominican Republic specif ically reciting the proposed application of the disbursement, such check or order to be countersigned as providing for a proper expenditure by the Minister or Secretary of the Legation of the United States in the Dominican Republic, and by a person designated for this purpose by the Receiver General of Dominican Customs. In view of the above, I have the honor to request that the appropriate telegraphic instructions be issued to the Receiver General of Dominican Customs. The Department is now informed that the American Minister is bringing to the United States with him true copies of the correspondence exchanged between the Dominican Foreign Office and the American Legation, as well as a true copy of the loan contract as signed. So soon as these documents are received by the Department copies will be transmitted to you for your files. Meanwhile I have the honor to enclose herewith a copy of the contract and of the coupon note as they appear to be from information before this Department. 1 I have [etc.] W. J. BRYAN. ARBITRATION OF THE BOUNDARY DISPUTE BETWEEN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND HAITI. GOOD OFFICES OF THE UNITED STATES.? File No. 738.3915/188. The Minister of the Dominican Republic to the Secretary of State. [Translation.] DOMINICAN LEGATION, Washington, January 31, 1913. MR. SECRETARY: I have the honor to send you herewith a copy of the note I wrote today to his excellency Sr. Solon Ménos, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Haiti, and of the new draft protocol1 that I have submitted to his attention. On the assumption that the Haitian Government will cooperate with the Dominican Government in expediting the proceedings necessary to a prompt arbitral decision, the said draft protocol contains a proposition contractually to accept the provisional [boundary] line between the Dominican and Haitian Republics adopted by the Government of the United States of America on September 24 last pending a decision of the Arbitral Tribunal as to what the final boundary line is to be. I am complying with my instructions in saying to you that this conditional acquiescence-which is given because the Dominican Government is convinced of the absolute necessity of adopting a frontier if cordiality is to be maintained in the relations of the neighboring peoples, and is satisfied that nothing but a profound desire for peace prompted the Government of the United States to adopt the said line-does not imply a renunciation of the territories in dispute on the part of the Dominican Republic, Lor an acknowledgment that it did not possess in January 1911 the parts of its territory indicated in my note hereinbefore referred to, of which it is or seems to be dispossessed by the said provisional line adopted by the United States. I avail [etc.] FRANCO J. PEYNADO. File No. 738.3915/189. The Assistant Secretary of War to the Secretary of State. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, February 10, 1913. In reply to your letter of the 28th ultimo 1: there are no documentary data on file in the War Department relative to this boundary line; however, it is the opinion of this Department that the thalweg of the Artibonito, Libon, Capotillo and Massacre rivers is indicated by the line shown as the boundary on the map of Haiti and Santo Domingo referred to in your communication. It is the line indicated on the map of Santo Domingo by General Casimiro N. de Moya, a member of the Dominican-Haitian Boundary Commission of 1901, and was the latest obtainable information when the War Department map of Haiti and Santo Domingo was compiled. ROBERT SHAW OLIVER. File No. 738.3915/188. The Secretary of State to the Minister of the Dominican Republic. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, February 11, 1913. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 31st ultimo enclosing a copy of a note [etc.] In reply I have the honor to inform you that your note and its enclosure will receive the Department's consideration. Accept [etc.] P. C. KNOX. File No. 738.3915/189. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, February 27, 1913. MY DEAR MR. MINISTER: Referring to your call at this Department in connection with the Haitian-Dominican boundary question and to your conversation with officers of the Department of [on] this subject, I have much pleasure in informing you that the Secretary of War, in reply to a request' for an expression of opinion, states that it is the opinion of his Department that "the thalweg of the Pedernales or Anse river is indicated by the line representing the boundary between Haiti and Santo Domingo. The representation of the boundary on the eastern bank of the river, as shown on the map of Haiti and Santo Domingo mentioned in your communication, was due to the inpracticability of superimposing the convention for the boundary line on the Not printed. single line representing the narrow bed of the river." The map in question is the "map of Haiti and Santo Domingo prepared by the Second Military Information Division, General Staff, Washington, 1907, and 1908," Monte Cristi sheet number 6 and Barahona sheet number 7. This Department has also invited an expression of opinion from the War Department as to whether, as in the case of the Pedernales river, the thalweg or one of the banks of the rivers Artibonito, Libon, Capotillo and Massacre is indicated by the line shown as the boundary on the before-mentioned map, [and] has in reply been informed by the Secretary of War that it is the opinion of his Department that "the thalweg of the Artibonito, Libon, Capotillo and Massacre rivers is indicated by the line shown as the boundary on the map of Haiti and Santo Domingo referred to in your communication." I am [etc.] P. C. KNOX. File No. 738.3915/193. The Minister of Haiti to the Chief of the Latin American Division of the Department of State. [Translation.] No. 513.] HAITIAN LEGATION, Washington, March 28, 1913. MY DEAR MR. DOYLE: I have the honor to send you herewith a copy of a draft protocol that I addressed on the 26th instant to the Dominican Plenipotentiary, which embodies a recasting of the draft of which I informed you, as well as Mr. Francisco J. Peynado, on June 22, 1912.3 I avail [etc.] SOLON MENOS. NOTE.-Receipt of the foregoing communication was acknowledged by the Department of State on March 29, 1913. File No. 738.3915/195. The Chargé d'Affaires of the Dominican Republic to the Secretary of State. [Translation.] DOMINICAN LEGATION, MR. SECRETARY: I have the honor of sending you herewith ten copies of a map of the Dominican Republic recently published by order of my Government, showing the line adopted by the Government of the 1 See ante. Not printed. For. Rel. 1912, p. 385. |