Justice and Public Instruction Departmental Order No. 1 of 1921, under date of February 19 of the same year. (Division of "cumunero" lands) All the Departmental orders of the Department of Justice and Public Instruction relative to public instruction, with the exception of Orders Nos. 5, 9 and 16 of 1917; No. 97 of 1918; and Special Order No. 1 of 1919, until the installation of the Provisional Government. CONTRACTS Treasury Contracts entered into between the Military Government and the persons listed below for the rental of urban properties of the Republic: Contract No. 58 with A. Humberto Aybar, under date of March 7, 1918. (one lot) Contract with Selidonia Petitón Vda. Parisién, under date of December 12, 1918. (one lot) Contract with Elías José, under date of December 4, 1918. (one lot) Contract with Justiniano Acosta, under date of December 6, 1918. (one lot) Contract with Donato Pérez, under date of December 2, 1918. (one lot) Contract with Anita Buenrostro, under date of December 4, 1918. (one lot) Contract with Urbano Acosta, under date of December 2, 1918. (one lot) Contract with Celestino Fontana, under date of December 20, 1918. (one lot) Contract with Ulises Cuello, under date of May 26, 1919. (one lot) Contract with Alejandro Deño, under date of May 26, 1919. (one lot) Contract No. 59 with Agustín Hernández, under date of July 21, 1919. (one house) Contract No. 60 with R. O. Galvan, under date of October 31, 1919. (one lot) Contract No. 61 with Pablo Gobaira, under date of November 11, 1919. (one lot) Contract No. 62 with Abelardo José Romano, under date of November 11, 1919. (one lot) Contract No. 63 with Jorge Bazil, under date of November 11, 1919. (one lot) Contract with Earle T. Fiddler for the extraction of sand and other products. Contract No. 1 with Francisco J. Peynado, under date of December 14, 1917: Rental of house No. 33 de la Calle José Reyes. Contract No. 2 with Felix Gonzalez, under date of January 1, 1918: Transfer service in the Port of Macoris. Contract with Francisco J. Peynado, No. 4, under date of April 12, 1918: Rental of house No. 46 de la Calle Mercedes. Contract No. 5 with Alej. Penso, under date of December 17, 1918: Rental of house No. 15 Calle Beler and the upper floors of house No. 13/36 de la Calle Beler, corner of Comercio, both in Santiago. Contract No. 6 with J. L. Manning, under date of July 12, 1919: (Designating International Banking Corporation as depositary of Government funds) Contract No. 8 with the La Fé Lodge, under date of September 29, 1919: Rescinding a rental contract covering the building known by the name of "Logia La Fé". Contract No. 9 with Ig. Cat. Apostólica Romana, under date of September 25, 1919: Establishing an agreement pending the determination of ownership of the buildings annexed to the Iglesia de Regina. Contract No. 26 with Suc. Juan Nieves Reyes, under date of June 4, 1920: Transfer of rights to a tract of land in Nigua. Contract No. 27 with Agapito, Lorenzo and Mercedes Ant. Reyes, under date of June 27, 1920: Purchase of land in Nigua for the National Leper Colony of Nigua. Contract No. 29 with Alberto Ascensio, under date of October 1, 1920: Rental of a piece of land located in Santiago in Bella Vista which measures 96 tareas. (The Government is the renter) Contract No. 30 with Junta Fábrica Iglesia del Rosario in Moca, under date of September 30, 1920: Payment of $32,315.52 in order that the Board might relieve the Government of all responsibility occasioned by Executive Order No. 420 and its amendments. Contract No. 31 with Junta Fábrica Iglesia Contract No. 35 with R. M. Lepervanche, Contract with Divanna-Grisolia & Com- Contract with Grace & Co., under date of Contract with Frank L. Mitchell, under date of September 19, 1921: Construction of a pump and installation of piping for pumping salt water. Contract with Frank L. Mitchell, under Contract with Gaetan Bucher y Nicolas Contract with Frank L. Mitchell, under Contract with G. H. Lippitt, under date of September 3, 1920: Installation of a pipe line for molasses. Contract with Lee, Higginson & Co., under Contract with the Compañia de Mieles Fomento and Communications All the contracts existing between the Department of Fomento and Communications and other persons for the rental of buildings for postoffices in force on the date of the installation of the Provisional Government. Marck Engineering & Contracting Co.-Contract dated August 23, 1921, for "Construction Barahona Market" Chief of Surveyors-(Land Survey) Four contracts which have been made for the advance of funds as follows: Contract between the Military Government and the Commune of Azua for a loan of $20,000.00 (veinte mil pesos) at a rate of interest of 5%, under date of December 31, 1919. Contract between the Commune of Azua and the International Banking Corporation for a loan of $15,000.00 (quince mil pesos), under date of December 31, 1919. Cancellation, under date of June 8, 1920, of the loan of $15,000.00 (quince mil pesos) with the International Banking Corporation mentioned above. Loan of the Military Government to the Commune of Azua of $15,000.00 (quince mil pesos) at a rate of interest of 5%, under date of June 8, 1920. Contract between the Commune of Barahona and the Military Government for a loan of $25,000.00 (veinticinco mil pesos) at a rate of interest of 5%, under date of April 8, 1920. Contract between the Commune of Villa Mella and the Military Government for a loan of $14,650.00 (catorce mil seis cientos cincuenta pesos) at a rate of interest of 5% under date of May 25, 1920. The Dominican Government likewise agrees that those Executive Orders, those resolutions, those administrative regulations, and those contracts shall remain in full force and effect unless and until they are abrogated by those bodies which, in accordance with the Dominican Constitution, can legislate. But, this ratification, in so far as concerns those of the above mentioned Executive Orders, resolutions, administrative regulations, and contracts, which have been modified or abrogated by other Executive Orders, resolutions, or administrative regulations of the Military Government, only refers to the legal effects which they created while they were in force. The Dominican Government further agrees that neither the subsequent abrogation of those Executive Orders, resolutions, administrative regulations, or contracts, or any other law, Executive Order, or other official act of the Dominican Government, shall affect the validity or security of rights acquired in accordance with those orders, those resolutions, those administrative regulations and those contracts of the Military Government; the controversies which may arise related with those rights acquired will be determined solely by the Dominican Courts, subject, however, in accordance with the generally accepted rules and principles of international law, to the right of diplomatic intervention if those Courts should be responsible for cases of notorious injustice or denial of justice. The determination of such cases in which the interests of the United States and the Dominican Republic only are concerned shall, should the two Governments disagree, be by arbitration. In the carrying out of this agreement, in each individual case, the High Contracting Parties, once the necessity of arbitration is determined, shall conclude a special agreement defining clearly the scope of the dispute, the scope of the powers of the arbitrators, and the periods to be fixed for the formation of the arbitral tribunal and the several stages of the procedure. It is understood that on the part of the United States, such special agreements will be made by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereto, and on the part of the Dominican Republic shall be subject to the procedure required by the Constitution and laws thereof. II. The Dominican Government, in accordance with the provisions of Article I, specifically recognize the bond issue of 1918 and the twenty-year five and one-half per cent Customs Administration Sinking Fund Gold Bond Issue authorized in 1922, as legal, binding, and irrevocable obligations of the Republic, and pledges its full faith and credit to the maintenance of the service of those bond issues. With reference to the stipulation contained in Article 10 of the Executive Order No. 735, in accordance with which the loan of five and one-half per cent authorized in 1922 was issued, which provides: 'That the present customs tariff will not be changed during the life of this loan without previous agreement between the Dominican Government and the Government of the United States;' the two Governments concerned agree in interpreting this stipulation in the sense that, in accordance with article 3 [III] of the Convention of 1907,1 a previous agreement between the Dominican Government and the United States shall be necessary to modify the import duties of the Dominican Republic, it being an indispensable condition for the modification of such duties that the Dominican Executive demonstrate and that the President of the United States recognize that, on the basis of exportations and importations to the like amount and the like character during the two years preceding that in which it is desired to make such modification, the total net customs receipts would at such altered rates of duties have been, for each of such two years, in excess of the sum of $2,000,000 United States gold. III. The Dominican Government and the Government of the United States agree that the Convention signed on February 8, 1907, between the United States and the Dominican Republic, shall remain in force so long as any bonds of the issues of 1918 and 1922 shall remain unpaid, and that the duties of the General Receiver of Dominican Customs appointed in accordance with that Convention shall be extended to include the application of the revenues pledged for the service of those bond issues in accordance with the terms of the Executive Orders and of the contracts under which the bonds were issued. IV. This arrangement shall take effect after its approval by the Senate of the United States and the Congress of the Dominican Republic. DONE in four originals, two in the English language, and two in the Spanish, and the representatives of the High Contracting Powers signing them in the City of Santo Domingo, this twelfth day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-four. 1 Convention signed at Santo Domingo Feb. 8, 1907 (TS 465), ante, p. 196. SIR: MOST-FAVORED-NATION TREATMENT IN CUSTOMS MATTERS Exchange of notes at Washington September 25, 1924 Terminated May 19, 1950 1 Treaty Series 700 The Secretary of State to the Dominican Minister DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON, September 25, 1924 I have the honor to make the following statement of my understanding of the agreement reached through recent conversations held at Washington by representatives of the Government of the United States and the Government of the Dominican Republic with reference to the treatment which the United States shall accord to the commerce of the Dominican Republic and which the Dominican Republic shall accord to the commerce of the United States. These conversations have disclosed a mutual understanding between the two Governments which is that, in respect to import, export and other duties and charges affecting commerce, as well as in respect to transit, warehousing and other facilities, the United States will accord to the Dominican Republic and the Dominican Republic will accord to the United States, its territories and possessions, unconditional most-favored-nation treatment. It is understood that No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into or disposition in the United States, its territories or possessions, of any articles the produce or manufacture of the Dominican Republic than are or shall be payable on like articles the produce or manufacture of any foreign country; No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into or disposition in the Dominican Republic of any articles the produce or manufacture of the United States, its territories or possessions than are or shall be payable on like articles the produce or manufacture of any foreign country; 1 Date on which the Dominican Republic became a contracting party to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (TIAS 1700, ante, vol. 4, p. 641). |