Letter to the Editor. 
95 
certain formalities fulfilled, become a Haytian after a residence 
of one year in tlie country. The religious belief of the emi¬ 
grants, to whatever Christian sect they may belong, shall always 
be respected. They shall freely exercise their worship. There 
shall never be occasion to call them to defend the Homan 
Catholic religion, whether they believe it or not^ 
A recent law fixes the term of obligatory military service for 
every Haytian at nine years. The citizens required for this 
service are designated by lot. The Government, as an evidence 
of its good intentions in favor of emigration, has resolved to 
exempt the emigrants from military service. But this exemp¬ 
tion shall not extend to their children when they shall have 
attained the prescribed age of drawing lots. 
The emigrants shall make a part of the National Guard, 
(militia.) The National Guard meets only on the first Sunday 
of each month, and has no exercises to make on that day. In 
case of extraordinary events, a more active service may be 
exacted of it. But then it will be a duty to fulfil for the guar¬ 
anty of the general interests, and consequently of their own. 
The emigrants will be permitted to settle together, in each 
locality, as much as it shall be a practicable thing; but they 
shall not, therefore, cease to be subject to the laws and author¬ 
ities of the Kepublic. 
The present Government, which is devoting itself seriously 
to spreading light, has founded, and will continue to found, 
numerous primary schools. In these institutions instruction is 
given cheaply, and even gratuitously, to certain children. 
The children of the emigrants shall enjoy in this respect the 
same advantages as those of Haytians. 
Our laws deprive no one of the privilege of leaving the 
country if they please; nevertheless, the Haytian who abandons 
his country in the moment of imminent danger loses forever 
the quality of citizen. The emigrants who do not wish to 
remain in Hayti are free to re-embark • yet those whose intro- 
