Bulletin des lois et actes, 1922
- Official edition of the Department of Justice, printed by the Imprimerie Nationale in 1924, with about 150 items in its table of contents.
- The Council of State, sitting as National Assembly, elected Louis Borno President of the Republic on April 10, 1922, by 14 votes.
- The law of June 26, 1922 authorized the executive to borrow up to $40 million in gold, repayable within 30 years and issued in series.
- Loan service was made a first charge on internal revenue and a second charge on customs revenue, as set out in the Protocol of October 3, 1919.
- A Haitian memorandum states that the loan was set at 11 to 16 million after the 40 million figure was judged beyond the country's means.
- An arrêté of May 9, 1922 made the metric system compulsory for measuring and weighing from July 1, 1922.
The Bulletin des lois et actes for 1922, an official edition of the Department of Justice printed by the Imprimerie Nationale in Port-au-Prince in 1924. Its table of contents lists about 150 items in date order: laws, decrees, arrêtés, circulars, diplomatic notes and telegrams. Early items are arrêtés of President Dartiguenave, among them pardons and commutations of sentence. The Council of State, sitting as National Assembly, elected Louis Borno President on April 10, 1922. A large group of documents concerns the loan provided for in the Protocol of October 3, 1919 with the United States: diplomatic correspondence, a memorandum of June 7, 1922, the law of June 26, 1922 authorizing a loan of up to $40 million in series, the final prospectus, and the law of October 27, 1922 sanctioning the loan contract. Other items include the metric system made compulsory from July 1, 1922, a December 1922 press law, a rural police, and many naturalization orders.
How to cite
Department of Justice (official edition), Bulletin des lois et actes, 1922, https://archive.org/details/bulletindesloise22hait
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- Government of Haiti