stood that this species of judgment or arbitration shall not deprive the contending parties of the right they have to resort, on their return, to the judicial authority of their own country.

The said consuls and vice consuls are authorized to require the assistance of the local authorities for the arrest and imprisonment of the deserters from the ships-of-war and merchant vessels of their country. For this purpose they shall apply to the competent tribunals, judges, and officers, and shall, in writing, demand such deserters, proving by the exhibition of the registers of the vessels, the muster rolls of the crews, or by any other official documents, that such individuals formed part of the crews; and on this claim being substantiated, the surrender shall not be refused. Such deserters, when arrested, shall be placed at the disposal of the consuls and vice consuls, and may be confined in the public prisons at the request and cost of those who shall claim them, in order to be sent to the vessels to which they belong, or to others of the same country. But if not sent back within three months of the day of their arrest, they shall be set at liberty, and shall not again be arrested for the same cause. However, if the deserter shall be found to have committed any crime or offence, his surrender may be delayed until the tribunal before which his case shall be pending shall have pronounced its sentence, and such sentence shall have been carried into effect.

ARTICLE 27

The United States of America and the Dominican republic, on requisitions made in their name through the medium of their respective diplomatic and consular agents, shall deliver up to justice persons who, being charged with the crimes enumerated in the following article, committed within the jurisdiction of the requiring party, shall seek asylum or shall be found within the territories of the other: Provided, That this shall be done only when the fact of the commission of the crime shall be so established as to justify their apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime had been committed in the country where the persons so accused shall be found; in all of which the tribunals of said country shall proceed and decide according to their own laws.

ARTICLE 28

Persons shall be delivered up according to the provisions of this convention, who shall be charged with any of the following crimes, to wit: murder, (including assassination, parricide, infanticide, and poisoning;) attempt to commit murder; rape; forgery; the counterfeiting of money; arson; robbery with violence, intimidation, or forcible entry of an inhabited house; piracy; embezzlement by public officers, or by persons hired or salaried, to the detriment of their employers, when these crimes are subject to infamous punishment.

ARTICLE 29

On the part of each country the surrender shall be made only by the authority of the executive thereof. The expenses of detention and delivery effected in virtue of the preceding articles, shall be at the cost of the party making the demand.

ARTICLE 30

The provisions of the foregoing articles relating to the surrender of fugitive criminals, shall not apply to offences committed before the date hereof, nor to those of a political character.

ARTICLE 31

This convention is concluded for the term of eight years, dating from the exchange of the ratifications; and if one year before the expiration of that period neither of the contracting parties shall have announced, by an official notification, its intention to the other to arrest the operations of said convention, it shall continue binding for twelve months longer, and so on, from year to year, until the expiration of the twelve months which will follow a similar declaration, whatever the time at which it may take place.

ARTICLE 32

This convention shall be submitted on both sides to the approval and ratification of the respective competent authorities of each of the contracting parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Santo Domingo as soon as circumstances shall admit.

In faith whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the aforegoing articles, in the English and Spanish languages, and they have hereunto affixed their seals.

Done in duplicate, at the city of Santo Domingo, this eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

COMMERCIAL RELATIONS

Exchange of notes and protocol of agreement on publication signed at
Washington June 4, 1891

Proclaimed by the President of the United States August 1, 1891

Entered into force September 1, 1891

Terminated October 27, 1894 1

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Treaty Series 75 and 74

EXCHANGE OF NOTES

The Dominican Minister to the Special Plenipotentiary for the United States

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LEGATION OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

WASHINGTON, June 4, 1891

MR. MINISTER: The Government of the Dominican Republic having been officially informed of the action of the Congress of the United States of America in the enactment of the tariff law of October 1, 1890,2 authorizing the admission through the custom-houses of said United States, free of all duty, of the articles enumerated in section 3 of said law, with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing the articles named, I am pleased to be able to state to you that the Dominican Government, likewise animated by the desire to maintain the relations of sincere friendship which happily exist between the Dominican Republic and the United States of America, and especially recognizing that the close proximity of the two countries suggests the good policy of establishing the reciprocal commerce upon such a basis as shall encourage the development of trade and strengthen friendly feeling between their respective peoples, has resolved to respond in the most liberal manner within its power to the legislation above referred to of the Congress of the United States.

I have, therefore, the honor to inform you that the Government of the Dominican Republic, in reciprocity for, and in consideration of, the free admission into all the ports of the United States exempt from the payment of duties, whether national, State, or municipal, of the products of the Domini

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Pursuant to exchange of notes at Washington Oct. 26 and 27, 1894. 2 26 Stat. 567.

can Republic enumerated in section 3 of said law, is prepared, by virtue of the legislative resolution of the National Congress of March 23 last, to decree the admission into all the established ports of entry of the Dominican Republic, on and after the 1st day of September, 1891, free of all customs duty and any other national or port charges, of the articles or merchandise named in the following Schedule A, provided that the said articles or merchandise are exported directly from, and are the product or manufacture of, the United States of America:

SCHEDULE A

Articles to be admitted free of duty into the Dominican Republic:

1. Animals, live.

2.

Meats of all kinds, salted or in brine, but not smoked.

3. Corn or maize, corn meal and starch.

4. Oats, barley, rye and buckwheat, and flour of these cereals.

5. Hay, bran and straw for forage.

6. Trees, plants, vines and seeds and grains of all kinds for propagation. 7. Cotton seed oil and meal cake of same.

8. Tallow in cake or melted, and oil for machinery, subject to examination and proof respecting the use of said oil.

14. Machines, including steam-engines and those of all other kinds, and parts of the same, implements and tools for agricultural, mining, manufacturing, industrial and scientific purposes, including carts, wagons, handcarts and wheelbarrows, and parts of the same.

15. Material for the construction and equipment of railways.

16. Iron, cast and wrought, and steel, in pigs, bars, rods, plates, beams, rafters and other similar articles for the construction of buildings, and in wire, nails, screws and pipes.

17. Zinc, galvanized and corrugated iron, tin and lead in sheets, asbestos, tar paper, tiles, slate and other material for roofing.

18. Copper in bars, plates, nails and screws.

19. Copper and lead pipe.

20. Bricks, fire bricks, cement, lime, artificial stone, paving tiles, marble and other stones in rough, dressed or polished, and other earthy materials used in building.

22. Wire, plain or barbed, for fences, with hooks, staples, nails, and similar articles used in the construction of fences.

23. Telegraph wire and telegraphic, telephonic and electrical apparatus of all kinds for communication and illumination.

24. Wood and lumber of all kinds for building, in logs or pieces, beams, rafters, planks, boards, shingles, flooring, joists, wooden houses, mounted or unmounted, and accessory parts of buildings.

25. Cooperage of all kinds, including staves, headings and hoops, barrels and boxes, mounted or unmounted.

28. School furniture, blackboards, and other articles exclusively for the use of schools.

29. Books, bound or unbound, pamphlets, newspapers and printed matter, and paper for printing newspapers.

30. Printers' inks of all colors, type, leads and all accessories for printing. 31. Sacks, empty, for packing sugar.

32. Gold and silver coin and bullion.

It is understood that the packages or coverings in which the articles named in the foregoing schedule are imported shall be free of duty if they are usual and proper for the purpose.

The Government of the Dominican Republic is, further, prepared to decree the admission into all the established ports of entry of the said Republic, at a reduction of 25 per cent. of the duty designated in the customs tariff now in force or which may hereafter be adopted in said Republic (which reduction shall likewise apply to all duties which are imposed on these articles by authority of the National Government), of the articles or merchandise named in the following Schedule B, provided that said articles or merchandise are exported directly from, and are the product or manufacture of, the United States of America:

SCHEDULE B

Articles to be admitted into the Dominican Republic at a reduction of duty of 25 percent.:

33. Meats not included in Schedule A and meat products of all kinds, except lard.

34.

Butter, cheese, and condensed or canned milk.

35. Fish and shellfish, salted, dried, smoked, pickled or preserved in cans. 36. Fruits and vegetables, fresh, canned, dried, pickled or preserved. 37. Manufactures of iron and steel, single or mixed, not included in Schedule A.

38. Cotton, manufactured, spun or twisted, and in fabrics of all kinds, woven or knit, and the same fabrics mixed with other vegetable or animal fibers in which cotton is the equal or greater component part.