Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-06
TEXT OF AGREEMENT
MADE BETWEEN SAN DOMINGO
AND THIS GOVERNMENT.

Copies of the Gaceta Official of Santo
Domingo received here contain what pur-
| ports to be the full text of the agreement
signed January 20. 1905. by Albert c. Dill
| bingham and Thomas C. Dawson, on the
| part of the American government, and by
Juan Francisco Sanchez and Federico
Veazquez FL, on the part of the govern
ment of Santo Domingo. The agreement Is
| as follows:
Whereas the Dominican government in
| view of the debts which burden the repub-
| lie, the imminent peril and urgent menace
| of Intervention on the part of nations whose
| citizens have claims already established or
| to be established, finding itself. as 1t does.
| unable psrcmptorily to fulfill its obligations
| on account of the condition to which politi-
| cal disturbances and other causes have
| brought the treasury the result being that
these obligations are falling due without its
having been possible to pay Them or even
the interest thereon, desires to reach an
| arrangement with all its creditors by which
| the latter shall obtain a sufficient guarafl-
tee, and the government itself succeed in
assuring the regular receipt of revenues
| sufficient for the payment of it's internal
administration and the maintenance of its
administrative autonomy without any in
| terruption by the exigencies of foreign cred
| itors or by internal political disturbances:
and whereas the American government,
guaranteeing the complete integrity of the
territory of the Dominican republic, indi-
Gates that il is disposed to cooperate
toward the end above recited, and offers to
aid by lending its guarantee to the ar
rangement that the Dominican government
proposes to effect with all its creditors:
The Dominican government, represented
| by the secretary of state of foreign rela-
| tons, Citizen Juan Francisco Sanchez, and
| the secretary of the state of finance and
commerce, Citizen Federico Nelazquez H..
| and the American government. represented
| by its commissioner, Mr.. Albert c. Dillng-
ham. and its minister resident Mr.. Thomas
| c. Dawson, have agreed and covenanted as
| follows
Terms of Agreement.
Il. The American government agrees to
undertake the adjustment of all the obliga-
| tons of the Dominican government, foreign
| as well as domestic: the adjustment of the
! payments and of the conditions of amorti-
| cation; the reconsideration of conflicting
and unreasonable claims. and the determi-
| nation of the validity and amount of all
pending claims.
"a. If, in order to reach such adjustments
1t shall be considered necessary to name
| one or more commissioners, the Dominican
| government shall be represented in said
commissions.
go, In order to protect the said RESPONSE
| bility the American government shall take
charge of the custom house receipts and
| In order to guarantee the regular receipt of
| the funds required for the faithful and eX-
act payment of the obligations thus lqui-
dated and accepted shall take charge OF the
4 existing custom houses and of those which
| may hereafter be created. naming the mn
! ployes necessary for their management, the
| said employees being. so far as the fulfllment
of their duties and the exercise of their rights
| is concerned, considered as Dominicans and
| therefore subject to the laws of the repub-
| lie. On its part the Dominican government
| shall have in each of the custom houses a
| 'contrOle' for the purpose of making inspac-
| lions on behalf of its interests.
"a. From and after the date in which
this contract takes effect the present
| tom house employees shall be considered as
acting under its provisions.
| y. out of the revenues which shall be
| collected in all the custom houses of the re
public, the government of the United States
| shall deliver to the Dominican government
! a sum which shall not be less than 10 per
cent of the total gross amount collected. for
| the purpose of attending to the necessities
of the administrative budget. this being es-
timated for the first year at the sam of
| 100000 and which the Dominican goveri-
| ment shall receive in monthly advance pay
| ments for the needs of the public service.
| divided into four installments in the fol-
| lowing manner: Equal amounts of SIS, $50 on
| the LIST. the Sth, the 10TH and the 22d If
| 1t shall appear that the total revenues of
! the first or any subsequent year Will be
| less than 50 100000. the payments may be
proportionately decreased the Dominicln
government undertaking to keep its admin
istratiye expenditures within the limits OF
the Indispensable necessities of admiaistra-
ton.
expenses which may be occasioned In the
collection of the customs duties shall be
made for the account of the creditors of
the republic, without assigning to the latter
any part thereof.
II. To the government of the United
States it falls to pay out of the % per cent
which it detans:
"a. The employees of all the custom
houses.
''b. The interest. amortization and INSTALL
ments of the Dominican debt, foreign and
don ito nit I, hat t.
inbefore provided, according as il shall be
fixed and luuidated.
sc The whole surplus which may remain
at the end of each fiscal year shall be de-
! livered to the Dominican republic. shall
be devoted to the payment of its debt, il
it shall determine.
50. The collectors in the custom houses
must send monthly to the contaduria gen.
eral and the department of the treasury
statements of the corresponding income
and outgo. and annually a general state
ment which shall embrace the total Of
what has been collected and paid out.
&c. Any reform of the system of duties
and taxes shall be made in agreement with
the American government. and therefore
the present tariff and port duties may not
be reduced except with its consent as long
as the whole of the debt which 1t guaran-
tees shall not have been completely paid.
with the exception of the export duties
upon national products. which the Domini-
can government remains authorized to
abolish or reduce Immediately.
T. L ne american SoNefHfiieHl. AT the re-
quest of the Dominican republic, shall
grant such other assistance as may be in
its power, to restore the credit. preserve
the order, increase the efficiency of the
civil administration and advance the ma
terial progress and the welfare of the re-
public.
IS This agreement shall begin TO take
effect from and after the LIST of February
of the current year.
Done in four originals, two being in
the Spanish language and two in the Eng
lish and the representa- tives of the high
contracting parties signing them in the
city of Santo Domingo on the Goth day of
the mouth of January of the year nineteen
hundred and five.
''ALBERT O. DILLINGHAM,
THOMAS C. DAWSON,
JUAN ECO. SANCHEZ.
FEDERICO VELAZQU EZ H"
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