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Timestamp: 2020-06-06 10:58:20
Document Index: 294199700

Matched Legal Cases: ['Art. 2', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 4', 'Art. 2', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 4']

124 Laws in favor of Emigration.
Law on the Emigration into the Country, of Persons of African and Indian Race.
Fabre Geffrard, President of Hayti,
By the advice of the Council of the Secretaries of State,
Has proposed the following law:
Article 1. After the promulgation of the present law, five carreaux of land will be granted, free of all charge, to every family of laborers or cultivators of African or Indian race who shall arrive in the Republic. This grant will be reduced to two car¬ reaux, when the laborer or cultivator is unmarried.
Art. 2. These grants will be delivered, without expense and with a provisional title, to every family that shall have made, before the proper magistrate, the declarations prescribed by law to the end of obtaining naturalization, and they will be con¬ verted into final grants after a residence of a year and a day in the country.
Art. 3. The final grants will be given in exchange for the provisional grants, only when it shall have been ascertained by the Government agent that cultivation has already commenced on the property granted.
Art. 4. The grantee shall not have the power to dispose of his grant before the expiration of seven consecutive years of occupation. Nevertheless, he will be able to obtain the author¬ ity to exchange his grant for another property, but only on the conditions, terms, and with the provisos above named.
The present law shall be promptly executed by the Secretary of State of the Interior and of Agriculture.
National Palace ■ of Port-au-Prince,   the 1st   September,
1860, year fifty-seventh of Independence.
By the President : The Secretary of State, of the Interior, and of Agriculture. Es. Jsr. Joseph.
The Secretary of State, of War, and of Marine T. Dejoie.
The Secretary of State, of Justice, and of Worship E. Dubois.
The Secretary of State, of Finances, of Commerce, and
of Exterior Relations V. Plesance.
The Secretary of State of the General Police T. Lamothe.
Transcript 124 Laws in favor of Emigration. Law on the Emigration into the Country, of Persons of African and Indian Race. Fabre Geffrard, President of Hayti, By the advice of the Council of the Secretaries of State, Has proposed the following law: Article 1. After the promulgation of the present law, five carreaux of land will be granted, free of all charge, to every family of laborers or cultivators of African or Indian race who shall arrive in the Republic. This grant will be reduced to two car¬ reaux, when the laborer or cultivator is unmarried. Art. 2. These grants will be delivered, without expense and with a provisional title, to every family that shall have made, before the proper magistrate, the declarations prescribed by law to the end of obtaining naturalization, and they will be con¬ verted into final grants after a residence of a year and a day in the country. Art. 3. The final grants will be given in exchange for the provisional grants, only when it shall have been ascertained by the Government agent that cultivation has already commenced on the property granted. Art. 4. The grantee shall not have the power to dispose of his grant before the expiration of seven consecutive years of occupation. Nevertheless, he will be able to obtain the author¬ ity to exchange his grant for another property, but only on the conditions, terms, and with the provisos above named. The present law shall be promptly executed by the Secretary of State of the Interior and of Agriculture. National Palace ■ of Port-au-Prince, the 1st September, 1860, year fifty-seventh of Independence. Geffrard. By the President : The Secretary of State, of the Interior, and of Agriculture. Es. Jsr. Joseph. The Secretary of State, of War, and of Marine T. Dejoie. The Secretary of State, of Justice, and of Worship E. Dubois. The Secretary of State, of Finances, of Commerce, and of Exterior Relations V. Plesance. The Secretary of State of the General Police T. Lamothe.
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