Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1904

By the President of the United States of America.

a proclamation.

Whereas a Supplementary Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of Haiti to prolong the period within which may be exchanged the ratifications of the treaty of naturalization signed March 22, 1902, was concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries at Washington, on the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three, the original of which Supplementary Treaty, being in the English and French languages, is word for word as follows:

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. Léger, 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. Léger [seal.]

And whereas the said Supplementary Treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two governments were exchanged in the City of Washington, on the nineteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and four;

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Supplementary Treaty to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause thereof made be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

[seal.] Done at the City of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and twenty-eighth.

Theodore Roosevelt

By the President:
John Hay,
Secretary of State.