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LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT. 
Port-au-Prince, Aug. 4, 1859. 
To His Excellency the President of Hayti: 
In behalf of certain blacks, and persons of color in the United States 
and the Canadas, who are desirous of emigrating to Hayti, I respectfully 
ask replies to the following questions : 
I. Would Emigrants be subject to military duty 1 If so, for how long, 
and what manner of duty ? 
II. Would you grant such Emigrants perfect liberty to leave the 
country whenever they desired to do so 1 
III. Would they be required, directly or indirectly, to support the 
Roman Catholic Religion if they are not members of the Catholic 
Church ? 
IV. How long ere they would be invested with all the rights, civil and 
political, of native-born Ilaytians ? 
V. Do you guarantee to such Emigrants as efficient governmental 
protection as is given to the native Haytians 1 
VI. Is the Government willing that such Emigrants should settle in 
neighborhoods 1 Is the Government prepared to sell such tracts, on easy 
terms, to be paid in instalments, or within a reasonable number of years, 
and what other facilities and encouragements will the Government give 
to introduce such an emigration, and such settlements of communities ? 
I ask your particular attention to this head, as, unless it is satisfactorily 
answered, it will be impossible to induce an emigration of wealthy and 
intelligent men from America. 
VII. Provided such settlements were formed, what educational facili¬ 
ties would be extended them 1 
I have the honor to be, &c.,' 
James Redpath 
