41 Dilcia, they also provided the birth certification issued by the “local health center” of Sabana Grande de Boyá and, in the case of Violeta, the certification of her birth issued by the auxiliary mayor of Batey Las Charcas, Sabana Grande de Boyá.54 109(16) In 1997, children under 13 years of age were required to present a birth certification, the parents’ identity cards and, if the latter were married, their marriage certificate, when requesting late registration of birth.55 109(17) In the Registry Office of Sabana Grande de Boyá, the registrar responsible for registering births, Thelma Bienvenida Reyes, informed Genaro Rincón Miesse that it was not possible to register the children because the applicants did not have all the documents that Central Electoral Board required for this procedure.56 109(18) While the case was being processed before the Commission, the State presented a communication signed by Thelma Bienvenida Reyes, and attached a list issued by the Central Electoral Board, with the eleven documents required for late registration of birth:57 54 Cf. document with official report of the birth of the child Dilcia Yean issued on March 5, 1997, by the Secretariat of State for Health and Social Assistance, Dominican Republic (file of attachments to the application, attachment 3, folio 98 and file of attachments to the brief with requests and arguments, attachment 7, folio 48, and file of attachments to the answer to the application, attachment 19, folio 45); birth certificate of Violeta Bosico Cofi issued on March 3, 1997, by the auxiliary Mayor of Batey Las Charcas, Office of the Auxiliary Mayor, Section Juan Sánchez, Sabana Grande de Boyá, the Dominican Republic (file of attachments to the application, attachment 3, folio 94); file of attachments to the brief with requests and arguments, attachment 8, folio 49 and file of attachments to the answer to the application, attachment 24, folio 55); the State’s brief entitled: “the reply [...] of the Dominican Republic to the document ‘memorandum prepared for the hearing on merits’ presented by the petitioners […] during the hearing held on November 15, 2001, [before the Inter-American Commission]” (file of attachments to the application, attachment 14, tome VI, folio 2547 al 2555); testimony of Genaro Rincón Miesse given before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on March 14, 2005, and statement made by Genaro Rincón Miesse on August 9, 1999, before Katherine A. Fleet, in Gazcue, Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic (file of attachments to the application, attachment 4, folios 358 to 367; file of attachments to the brief with requests and arguments, attachment 2, folios 16 to 25, and file of attachments to the brief answering the application, attachment 34, folios 94 to 103). 55 Cf. testimony of Genaro Rincón Miesse given before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on March 14, 2005; brief with final arguments presented by the State on April 14, 2005, (file of preliminary objections and possible merits and reparations, tome V, folio 1224), and resolution No. 5/88 issued by the Central Electoral Board on June 8, 1988 (file of preliminary objections and possible merits and reparations, tome VI, folio 1557). 56 Cf. the State’s brief entitled: “the reply [...] of the Dominican Republic to the document ‘memorandum prepared for the hearing on merits’ presented by the petitioners […] during the hearing held on November 15, 2001, [before the Inter-American Commission]” (file of attachments to the application, attachment 14, tome VI, folios 2547 to 2561); statement made by Genaro Rincón Miesse on August 9, 1999, before Katherine A. Fleet, in Gazcue, Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic (file of attachments to the application, attachment 4, folios 358 to 367; file of attachments to the brief with requests and arguments, attachment 2, folios 16 to 25, and file of attachments to the brief answering the application, attachment 34, folios 94 to 103), and statement made by Leonidas Oliven Yean on June 25 or July 9, 1999, before Katherine A. Fleet, in Batey Enriquillo, Sabana Grande de Boyá (file of attachments to the application, attachment 14, tome III, folios 1752 to 1756; file of attachments to the brief with requests and arguments, attachment 34, folios 411 to 415, and file of attachments to the brief answering the application, attachment 15, folios 31 and 32). 57 Cf. the State’s brief entitled: “the reply [...] of the Dominican Republic to the document ‘memorandum prepared for the hearing on merits’ presented by the petitioners […] during the hearing held on November 15, 2001, [before the Inter-American Commission]” (file of attachments to the application, attachment 14, tome VI, folios 2547 to 2561); letter of September 30, 1999, from the Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the Organization of American States to the InterAmerican Commission (file of attachments to the application attachment 14, tome II, folios 1411 to 1418, and file of attachments to the brief with requests and arguments, attachment 13, folios 82 to 89), official