"_Fourth._ Would the government grant official protection to same; i. e., allow its representatives to aid and protect in every reasonable way the success of the enterprise, and when built guard same as public property, without assuming any legal liability therefor? "Finally, in case that we find a vessel sailing to one of said ports above named willing to take the monument to Isabella, would government concede this favor--allowing vessel to make coast service free of governmental duties?" "In exchange for above concessions on the part of the Dominican government, the undersigned hereby agree to erect, at their expense, and free of all charge to said government, a granite monument, according to plan herewith inclosed; estimated cost to be from $3,000 to $5,000. "Awaiting the favor of an early reply, and begging you to accept the assurance of our highest respect and esteem, we have the honor to be, "Very respectfully yours, "Rev. JOHN O'BRIEN and others in behalf of the Sacred Heart Review Monument Committee." In reply to the above petition was received an official document, in Spanish, of which the following is a literal translation: "ULISES HEUREAUX, _Division General-in-Chief of the National Army, Pacificator of the Nation, and Constitutional President of the Republic_: "In view of the petition presented to the government by the directors of the _Sacred Heart Review_ of Boston, United States of America, dated October 7, 1891, and considering that the object of the petitioners is to commemorate a historical fact of great importance, viz.: the establishment of the Christian religion in the New World by the erection of its first temple--an event so closely identified with Santo Domingo, and by its nature and results eminently American, indeed world-wide, in its scope--therefore the point of departure for Christian civilization in the western hemisphere, whose principal products were apostles like Cordoba, Las Casas, and others, defending energetically and resolutely the rights of the oppressed inhabitants of America, and themselves the real founders of modern democracy, be it