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 490 CONVENTION WITH THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Fm;. 8, 1867. ARTICLE XXX!. A1vrrcuLo 31. Convention to This convention is concluded for Esta couvencion se celebra por el l¤¤*Y<>¤‘ elghli the term of eight years, dating from término de ocho anos, contados desde yu"` the exchange of the ratifications; el cange ole las ratificaciones; y Si and if one year before the expira- uu aio antes de espirar ese plazo, tion of that period neither of the ninguna de las partes contratantes contracting parties shall have an- hubiere anunciado a la otra, por nounced, by an official notification, medio de una notiticacion oficial, its intention to the other to arrest su voluntad de detener los efcctos the operations of said convention, de dicha convencion,esta continuarzi Contiuuanco. it shall continue binding for twelve obligatoria por doce meses mas, y months longer, and so on, from year asi en adelante,de aio en aio, hasta to year, until the expiration of the que terminen los doee meses que twelve months which will follow a seguiran a semejante declaraeion, similar declaration, whatever the sea cual fuere el tiempo en que tentime at which it may take place. ga efecto. Anrrcma XXXII. Amucm.0 32. b0(i<;*;§Sl<>¤l¤ This convention shall be sub- Esta convencion sera sometida ` mitted on both sides to the approval por ambas partes é. la aprobacion y and ratification of the respective ratificacion de las respectivas autocompetent authorities of each of the ridades competentes de oada una de contracting parties, and the ratifica— las contratantes,y las ratificaciones tions shall be exchanged at Santo cangcadas en Santo Domingo luego Domingo as soon as circumstances que las circunstancias lo permitan. shall admit. En fe de lo cual los respectivos In faith whereof, the respective plenipotenciarios han iirmado y sel~ plenipotentiaries have signed the lado los precedentes articulos en atbregoing articles, in the English Espanol y en Ingles. and Spanish languages, aud they Hecho por duplicado en la oiudad have hereunto atlixed their seals. de Santo Domingoaocho dc Fcbrc- Done in duplicate, at the city of ro del aio del Senor de mil och0- Santo Domingo, this eighth day of cientos scsenta y siete. February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. L. s. JNO. SOMERS SMITH. [L. s. JOSE G. GARCIA. L. s. JOSE G. GARCIA. sd JUAN R. FIALLO. L. s. JUAN R. FIALLO. LL. s._] JNO. SOMERS SMITH. Ratification. And whereas the said convention has been duly ratined on both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at the city of Santo Domingo on the fifth instant: Y¤¤¤l¤¤¤¤il¤¤· Now, therefbre, be it known that I, Aivnmcw JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, have caused the said convention to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good iaith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be atiixed. Done oft the city of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [sent,.] sixty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-second. ` ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: WVILLIAM II. SEWARD, Secretary of State.