“ART. 6. The office of member of the Board is honorary, and without pay, and they shall perform their functions two years. Those who perform with zeal and patriotism their trust, will be entitled to the esteem and consideration of their fellow-citizens. “ART. 7. The present ordinance will be promptly executed by the Ministers of the Interior, Police, and Agriculture. “Given at St. Domingo City, the capital of the Republic, the 4th day of June, 1860, and the 17th year of independence. “A. ALFAU. “Countersigned, the Minister Secretary of State, in the departments of justice and education, charged with those of the interior, police, and agriculture. “JACINTO DE CASTRO.” LETTER VII. Dominican Republic. PROPOSED AMERICAN SETTLEMENT--PICTURE OF LIFE--TOMB OF THE WESLEYAN MISSIONARY. “Thy promises are like Adonis’ garden-- That one day bloomed, and fruitful were the next.” --KING HENRY VI. I have scarcely time to inform you of an American settlement really begun. It is near the sea, not far from Porto Plata, on a large _commonality_ or tract of land embracing about twelve square miles, (not twelve miles square,) having a water power running full length. The land being in common is considered of the first importance, for by this means a small outlay of capital--say one hundred dollars--secures to the settler the grazing advantage of the whole tract, where not otherwise in use. This idea was suggested by an eminent gentleman of St. Louis, and has been the custom of early settlements in Spanish colonies for centuries past. It will of course be subdivided whenever desired, each man taking the part he had originally improved. The principal settlers are from Massachusetts, one of whom, a Mr. Treadwell, (colored,) designs establishing a manual-labor school. Another, a Mr. Locke, (white,) who came out for his health, has actually secured a mill site, erected a small shanty, and cleared from twelve to twenty acres of land, as preparatory steps towards building a saw-mill. How happy will be the effect of such enterprise on a non-progressive people you have probably anticipated from what I have previously observed.