Laforestrie to A correct translation and copy. [ seal .] GAUTIER, July 14, 1873

A.—Proposed treaty between Hayti and San Domingo.

The undersigned, Jules Thirion de Montauban, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Dominican Republic near the government of the French Republic, and Etienne Charles Laforestrie, chargé d’affaires of the republic of Hayti near the government of the French Republic, have agreed to submit to their governments the following articles:

• Article 1. There shall be peace, friendship, and good understanding between the Dominican Republic and the republic of Hayti.
• Article 2. Neither of them shall, therefore, furnish, for use against the other, in any way or on any ground whatever, any aid or contingent, either of men, horses, money, provisions, munitions of war, or material of any kind. The contracting powers shall not permit the enemies of each other to pass through their territory. They shall oppose, even by force, any attempt at aggression which may be organized in their respective territories against one of them, and, as is usual in such cases, they shall disarm and remove as far as possible from the frontier without delay any person who shall have disturbed or sought to disturb the public peace of one of them, by taking up arms against the established government, and who shall have sought refuge in the territory of one of the contracting powers. Moreover, to this effect they shall, with one accord, adopt energetic and efficacious measures against the authors of offenses or crimes which may be committed on their frontiers to the injury of either of the contracting parties.
• Article 3. Both republics mutually engage never in any way to dispose of their territory, nor of any part thereof, nor to mortgage any portion of their territory to a foreign nation.
• Article 4. If both governments shall approve the present preliminary articles, their plenipotentiaries shall meet at * * * in the shortest time possible, for the purpose of concluding a definitive treaty on the basis specified in the foregoing articles.
• Article 5. The two contracting powers engage to use every possible diligence to the end that the treaty may be made under the guarantee of England, the United States of America, and France.

In testimony whereof the undersigned have signed and sealed the present articles.