III. The Government of Haiti agrees to pay any amount or amounts which may be awarded by the arbitrator, if he finds that it is liable therefor. IV. The evidence is to be submitted to the arbitrator and finally closed on or before the 1st day of March, 1900, and his decision is to be rendered within four months thereafter. V. Each Government shall furnish to the arbitrator an argument or brief not later than the 1st day of April, 1900, a copy of which each party shall furnish to the other at the same time as to the arbitrator, and the claimant and the Commune of Port-au-Prince may also file briefs in the cause on the same terms; but the arbitrator need not for such purpose delay his decision. VI. The Government of Haiti shall pay the indemnity awarded by the arbitrator, if any, as soon as the Legislative Assembly of Haiti shall authorize the payment; but the time thus allowed shall in no case exceed six months from the day the decision is pronounced, unless an extension of time of its payment should be granted by the Government of the United States. VII. Reasonable compensation to the arbitrator for all his services and expenses, and the other expenses of said arbitration, are to be paid in equal moieties by the said Governments. VIII. Any award given by the arbitrator shall be final and conclusive. Done in duplicate in English and in French, at Washington, this 18th day of October, 1899 1900. JOHN HAY J. N. LÉGER Supplemental protocol to the agreement of October 18, 1899, between the Secretary of State of the United States and the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Haiti, submitting to arbitration the claim of John D. Metzgar and Company against Haiti, signed at Washington June 30, 1900. SUPPLEMENTARY PROTOCOL. Whereas a protocol was signed at Washington on October 18, 1899, between the Secretary of State of the United States and the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Haiti, for submission to an arbitrator of certain issues involved in the claim of John D. Metzgar and Company against Haiti, as specified in the said protocol; and Whereas it is stipulated in article 4 of said protocol as follows, to wit: "The evidence is to be submitted to the arbitrator and finally closed on or before the 1st day of March 1900 and his decision is to be rendered within four months thereafter;" It is agreed between the two Governments that said article 4 be, and the same is, hereby, amended to read as follows to wit: "The evidence is to be submitted to the arbitrator and finally closed on or before the 1st day of March, 1900, and his decision is to be rendered by the first day of October 1900." Done in duplicate in English and French at Washington, this 30th day of June 1900. JOHN HAY. J. N. LEGER. The arbitrator under the foregoing protocol, the Hon. Wm. R. Day, rendered his award on the 27th of September, 1900, awarding $23,000 in favor of the claimant. 1902. NATURALIZATION TREATY. Concluded March 22, 1902; ratification advised by Senate February 1, 1904; ratified by President March 17, 1904; ratifications exchanged March 19, 1904; proclaimed, March 24, 1904. ARTICLES. I. Reciprocal recognition of citizens. II. Renunciation of nationality. III. Intent to return. IV. Punishment of citizens. V. Declaration of intention. VII. Ratification. The United States of America and the Republic of Haiti desiring to regulate the citizenship of those persons who may emigrate from the United States to Haiti, or from Haiti to the United States, have resolved to conclude a treaty on this subject. For that purpose they have appointed their Plenipotentiaries, to-wit: The President of the United States: John Hay, Secretary of State of the United States; The President of Haiti: Mr. J. N. Léger, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Haiti at Washington; Who, after the mutual communication of their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles: ARTICLE I. Citizens of the United States of America who shall have been duly naturalized as citizens of Haiti, and who shall have resided uninterruptedly in Haiti during a period of five years, shall be recognized by the United States as citizens of Haiti. Reciprocally, citizens of Haiti who shall have been duly naturalized as citizens of the United States of America, and who shall have resided uninterruptedly in the United States during a period of five years, shall be recognized by Haiti as citizens of the United States. This article shall apply as well to those already naturalized in either country as those hereafter naturalized. ARTICLE II. The person who, after having become a naturalized citizen of one of the contracting States, shall return to live in the country of his origin, without intention to return to the country where he has been naturalized, shall be considered as having renounced the nationality obtained through naturalization. ARTICLE III. The intent not to return may be held to exist when the person naturalized in the one country resides more than two years in the other country. ARTICLE IV. The naturalized citizens of either State who return to their country of origin, will be there liable to prosecution and punishment in conformity to the laws for the crimes or misdemeanors committed before their emigration and that are not covered by the statute of limitations. ARTICLE V. The declaration of intention to become a citizen of the one or the other country has not for either party the effect of naturalization. ARTICLE VI. The present treaty shall remain in force for ten years from the date of the exchange of ratifications; and unless one of the contracting parties shall notify the other of its intention to terminate it one year before the expiration of that period, the said treaty shall continue in force from year to year until the expiration of one year after official notice shall have been given by either of the contracting governments of a purpose to terminate it. ARTICLE VII. The present treaty shall be submitted to the approval and ratification of the respective appropriate authorities of each of the contract ing parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible within twelve months from the date hereof. Done in duplicate at the City of Washington, in the English and French languages this twenty-second day of March, 1902. JOHN HAY [SEAL. 1903. SUPPLEMENTAL NATURALIZATION CONVENTION. Concluded February 28, 1903; Ratification advised by the senate February 1, 1904; ratified by the President March 17, 1904; ratifications exchanged March 19, 1904; proclaimed March 24, 1904. The United States of America and the Republic of Haiti, considering it expedient to prolong the period within which, by Article VII of the treaty of naturalization, signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at Washington on March 22, 1902, the exchange of ratifications of the said treaty shall take place, have for that purpose appointed their respective Plenipotentiaries, namely: The President of the United States of America, John Hay, Secretary of State of the United States of America; and The President of Haiti, Mr. J. N. Leger, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Haiti at Washington: Who, after having communicated each to the other, their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following additional article to be taken as part of said treaty. SOLE ARTICLE. The respective ratifications of the said treaty shall be exchanged as soon as possible and within twelve months from March 22, 1903. Done in Duplicate at Washington in the English and French languages this 28th day of February A. D. 1903. JOHN HAY [SEAL.] J. N. LEGER [SEAL.] 1904. EXTRADITION CONVENTION. Concluded August 9, 1904; ratification advised by the senate December 15, 1904; ratified by the President June 17, 1905; ratifications exchanged June 28, 1905. The United States of America and the Republic of Haiti, wishing to insure the proper administration of justice, have resolved to con clude a treaty for the purpose of mutually surrendering persons who, being charged with one of the crimes hereinafter specified, or having been sentenced for one of these crimes, shall, by flight, have escaped judicial prosecution or the consequences of their sentence. To this end they have appointed their Plenipotentiaries, to wit: The President of the United States of America, John Hay, Secretary of State of the United States of America; and, The President of the Republic of Haiti, Mr. J. N. Léger, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Haiti at Washington; Who, after having communicated their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed on the following articles: ARTICLE I. The High Contracting Parties agree to deliver up to their respective justice, persons who, being accused or convicted of any of the crimes hereinafter enumerated, committed within the limits of jurisdiction of the demanding party, shall have afterwards taken refuge or shall be found in the territory of the other; provided, that this shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime or offense had been there committed. ARTICLE II. The crimes for which extradition shall be granted are the following: 1. Murder (including assassination, parricide, infanticide, poisoning, and voluntary manslaughter.) 2. Counterfeiting of money, either coin or paper; utterance or circulation of counterfeit or altered money; introduction of counterfeit or altered money into the territory of one of the Contracting Parties. 3. Counterfeiting of any securities issued by one of the Contracting Parties, of bonds or coupons of the public debt, of bank notes or other instruments of credit authorized by law; utterance, use, or introduction, in the territory of one of the Parties, of the aforementioned counterfeit or falsified securities or notes. 4. Forging of the public or private documents; use of forged docu ments. 5. Larceny; robbery, or that which corresponds to the crime provided for and punished by the laws of Haiti as theft committed with arms in hand or by violence or threats, or on the public highways; burglary, or that which corresponds to the crime provided for and punished by the laws of Haiti as theft committed by breaking or climbing into, or using false keys, or at night in a place inhabited or used as a dwelling. 6. Embezzlement by public officers or by persons hired or salaried, to the detriment of their employers; provided, that the amount of money or value of the property embezzled is not less than two hundred dollars. 7. Arson; destruction of railways, bridges, tramways, vessels, public edifices or other buildings, endangering human life, |