The mixed boundary commission began work at Anses à Pitres

Commissioners were chosen on both sides and opened their work on 1 February 1899 at the bourg of Anses à Pitres, designated by common agreement of the two governments as the rallying point offering the most conveniences. From the opening of the work, and contrary to all expectations, the Dominican commission invited the Haitian commission to begin the placing of the first boundary markers at the mouth of the river of Anses à Pitres, or river of the Pédernales, and this without any prior examination of the rights of each party and without any local inquiry into the extent of the jurisdiction of either government. The Haitian commission made its observation on this and, relying on the agreement reached between the Parties, asked the Dominican commission to furnish proof of the sovereignty of its government over this position of the territory. Upon the refusal to establish this proof first, the Haitian commission proposed, on the sole condition that the Dominican commission follow this example, to make proof of sovereignty, which, according to the documents collected and the…

Rouzier tells this under the entry NAYANCA.