Minister Furniss to
the Secretary of State.
American Legation,
Port au
Prince, November 1,
1906.
No. 121.]
Sir: Agreeable to my dispatch No. 111, of
October 18, 1906, to the department, I beg leave to inclose herewith
copy of the text of the Anglo-Haitian naturalization treaty, as
published in Le Moniteur of yesterday.
I am, etc.,
[Inclosure.]
text of the treaty.
His Excellency the President of the Republic of Haiti and His Majesty
the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of
the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor or India, being
desirous of concluding a convention in order to regulate the
question of the nationality of British subjects and Haytian citizens
in the territories of either country, respectively, have named as
their plenipotentiaries for this purpose, namely:
- His Excellency the President of the State Republic of
Hayti, Mr. Murville Fèreré, secretary of state for foreign
relations of the Republic of Hayti;
- And His Majesty the King of the “United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the
Seas, Emperor of India, Arthur George Vansittart, esq., His
Majesty’s consul-general at Port au Prince;
Who, having communicated to each other their full powers found in
good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:
- Article I. Persons of British
origin who have been born in Hayti since the coming into
force of constitution of 1889, and whose nationality is
fixed by
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article
3, paragraph 3, of that constitution, shall be regarded as
Haytian citizens while resident in the Republic.
- Art. II. Persons of Haitian
origin born in the British possessions shall be regarded as
British subjects while resident in the British
possessions.
- Art. III. The Government of His
Britannic Majesty agree not to extend diplomatic protection
to British subjects of Haitian origin resident in the
Republic, provided that they are Haitian citizens under the
laws in force in the Republic for the time being.
- Art. IV. Haitian citizens duly
naturalized in the United Kingdom or in the British colonies
or possessions according to the respective laws thereof
shall be recognized by the Republic as British
subjects.
- Art. V. British subjects duly
naturalized in Haiti shall be recognized by His Majesty’s
Government as Haitian citizens.
- Art. VI. The names of the
British subjects now resident in Haiti shall be communicated
by His Britannic Majesty’s consul-general to the Haitian
Government, and, provided that they have hitherto been
regarded as foreigners in Haiti, all such persons shall
receive diplomatic protection from His Majesty’s Government.
In view of the difficulty of framing a complete list of the
British subjects now resident in the Republic immediately,
the consul-general shall be at liberty to communicate from
time to time such supplementary lists as may be necessary,
and the first paragraph of this article shall apply to all
persons mentioned in such lists.
- Art. VII. A list of the persons
registered in the future as British subjects at the British
consulates in Haiti shall be communicated by His Britannic
Majesty’s consul-general to the Haitian Government at
intervals of six months. The Haitian Government may, on
receipt of any such list, address representations to the
consul-general in respect of any person named therein whom
it may claim to be a Haitian citizen, and if after inquiry
by the Haitian Government and His Britannic Majesty’s
consul-general it is agreed that the person is a Haitian
citizen, he shall not receive in the Republic diplomatic
protection from His Majesty’s Government.
- Art. VIII. The present
convention shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be
exchanged at Port au Prince as soon as possible.
- In witness whereof respective plenipotentiaries have
signed the present convention, and have affixed thereto
their seals.
Done in duplicate at Port au
Prince
the sixth day of
April, one thousand nine hundred and six.
- Arthur George
Vansittart.
- M. Férère.
