Bulletin des lois et actes, 1942-1943

The 578-page Bulletin des lois et actes covers September 15, 1942 to September 15, 1943 and was published by the Departement de la Justice as the official edition. Most instruments are decree-laws issued by President Elie Lescot under the decree-law of January 13, 1942, which gave him full powers for the duration of the war, and several cite the December 1941 declarations of war on Japan, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. The volume sanctions a September 28, 1942 agreement among the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Banque Nationale and the government on a loan secured by pledged export coffee. A decree-law of November 3, 1942 sets coffee classes and was later amended. Other texts add rotenone plants to the list of strategic crops, split the cost of a bridge over the Massacre River with the Dominican Republic, at 65,325.30 gourdes each, and set conditions for the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Haiti. Orders also form communal commissions and open credits.