President 1903
Carlos E. Morales, Provisional and Constitutional
President 1903-1906
Raman Caceres, Vice-President and Constitutional
President 1906-1911
Eladio Victoria, Provisional and Constitutional
President 1911-1912
Adolfo A. Nouel, Provisional President 1912-1913
Jose Bordas Valdez, Provisional President 1913-1914
Raman Baez, Provisional President 1914
Juan Isidro Jimanez, Constitutional President 1914-1916
Francisco Henriquez Carvajal, Provisional President 1916
AMERICAN INTERVENTION
_Military Governor_
Rear-Admiral H. S. Knapp 1916-
APPENDIX B
OLD WEIGHTS AND MEASURES IN USE IN SANTO DOMINGO
The equivalents between old weights and measures still in use in Santo
Domingo with the legal or metric system, are as follows, the
equivalents with American measures being also given:
Dominican American Metric
Measures of length:
1 league 3.46 miles 5.5727 kilometers
1 ona 3 feet, 10.79 inches 1.1884 meters
1 yard 35.996 inches 0.9143 meter
1 vara 32.91 inches 0.836 meter
1 foot 10.945 inches 0.278 meter
1 inch 0.9055 inch 0.023 meter
1 line [1] 0.0787 inch 0.002 meter
Surface measures:
1 tarea [2] 0.1554 acre 628.86 sq. meters
1 caballeria 186.50 acres 75.4636 hectares
Liquid measures:
1 bottle 0.7392 quart 720 grams
1 gallon 3.3265 quarts 3.34 liters
Dry measures:
1 fanega 1.575 bushels 55.5 liters
1 almud 0.1596 bushel 5.625 liters
1 cuartillo 0.0328 bushel 1.156 liter
Weights:
1 ton 2,028.232 pounds 920 kilograms
1 quintal 101.412 pounds 46 kilograms
1 arroba 25.353 pounds 11.5 kilograms
1 pound 1.014 pounds 460 grams
1 ounce 0.06338 pound, or 28.75 grams
1.014 ounces avoirdupois
1 adarme 27.78 grains 1.8 grams
1 grain[3] 0.7706 grain 5 centigrams
The following measures are cited for comparison:
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