Political Notes. 
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SUPERFICIAL OR SQUARE MEASURE. 
Haytian. American sq. ft. 
One carreau, or the square on a base } 
of 850 Haytian feet, or 372.97259832 > = 139108.56035076 
American feet.* 
American sq. yd. 
= 15456.50670 
2 carreaux. = 278217.12070150 = 30913.01340 
3 “ = 417325.68105228 = 46369.52010 
4 “ = 556434.24140300 = 61826.02680 
5 “ = 695542.80175360 = 77282.53350 
10 . = 1391085.6035076 = 154565.06705 
100 “ = 13910856.035076 = 1545650.67056 
100 “ equal 319.34931 acres; 1 carreau equals 3.1935 acres. 
1 carreau equals 12913.1424 French square metres. 
LIQUID MEASURE. 
Haytian gallon equals, 231 cubic inches, English. 
or, 0.833111 Imperial gallon, English, 
or, 3.78520 French litres. 
1 French litre equals 61.027051313 cubic inches, English. 
Haytian gallon equals 3 quarts and nearly j, or 3.332444 quarts. 
LEGAL EIGHTS OF WHITES. 
The legal rights of the white race in Hayti are not very' 
numerous. They cannot possess real estate, nor hold mort¬ 
gages for longer than nine years; they cannot become citizens, 
and, consequently, can neither vote nor attain political position; 
if they marry Haytian women, even, they cannot inherit their 
landed property, but only the proceeds of it when sold at a 
public action. They can be wholesale merchants, artists, me¬ 
chanics, professors, teachers, clerks, engineers, and the lessees 
of estates; but the retail trade, the bar, and the bench, military 
honors and civil distinctions have not been placed within the 
scope of their attainment. In social life, however, and in the 
callings for which they are legally qualified, they are treated 
with all the courtesy and regard to which their character entitles 
them. Exemplary conduct on their part always enables them 
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