"Lettre d'Haïti (de notre Correspondant particulier)" / "Letter from Haiti (from our special correspondent)"
My dear Director,
The departure of the steamship Nacase has allowed me to send you my previous letter via New York. I will do likewise whenever I have particularly interesting things to tell you about.
We are experience, before autumn, a shower of... portfolios.
General Mompoint the younger, the Minister of War, has just resigned in turn, in order to take a well earned res after a campaign of eight months. The ministry has been reformed thus: Hugon Lechaud to Agriculture and Public Works; D. Trouillot to Justice and Religions; Béliard the younger to War and Navy; Nemours Jean-Pierre the elder to the Interior; Mr. Firmin has remained in Finance and Foreign Relations, and Mr. D. Rameau in Public Instruction.
Mr. D. Trouillot who, last year, was previously named Government auditor in cassation, is well known in Port-au-Prince. He also made many friends, when he was in Cap for many years, under Geffrard, as Government auditor.
Mr. Béliard, senator from the North, has occupied diverse functions at the Customs office in Cap, including serving as director; he was the delegate in command of the Cap arrondissement during the last insurrection.
Mr. Nemours Pierre-Louis the elder has been senator of the North-West for some ten years.
Of the three new members of the cabinet, Mr. Trouillot is the oldest, being over sixty; the other two are in their fifties.
The negotiations with the Dominican are progressing actively. In a few words, here is what is happening: President Domingue, to facilitate relations between the two Republics that share the island of Haiti, had, by treaty, recognizing the Government of Santo Domingo, adopted the application of the free trade of Haitian and Dominican products over the whole of the territory. Furthermore, since the Dominican were demanding a rectification of the border to their advantage, it was decided that all disputes on this subject would be prevented in the future by the payment of an indemnity of 150,000 piastres that the Haitian Government would carry out over eight years.
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