Recueil général des lois et actes du gouvernement d'Haïti, Tome III (1818-1823)
- Opens in January 1818 with President Pétion's dispatches on customs weighers (January 15) and on trade licenses for foreign consignees, brokers and merchants (January 20).
- Pétion's death in 1818 is marked by an address of the Secretary of State to the people and the army, who exercised executive authority under article 147 of the Constitution until the Senate named a successor.
- A 1819 law cuts the salaries of employees of the mint, adopted by the Chamber on April 28, by the Senate on May 1 and signed by Boyer on May 3, 1819.
- A law of May 3, 1819 exempts raw and refined sugar, syrups and molasses from export, weighing and wharfage duties for one year.
- The same law cuts the territorial tax on sugar from 8 to 5 gourdes per thousand for that year.
Volume III of the Recueil général des lois et actes du gouvernement d'Haïti covers 1818 to 1823 in 692 pages, printed in Paris by Auguste Durand in 1860 and digitized by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It was compiled by Linstant Pradine, a former chargé d'affaires of Haiti in London and Paris, and carries historical, jurisprudential and concordance notes. The acts run in chronological order from January 1818, with President Pétion's dispatches on customs and trade licenses, through the address on Pétion's death, to the 1819 laws under Boyer on mint salaries and on sugar export duties.
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Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Recueil général des lois et actes du gouvernement d'Haïti, Tome III (1818-1823), https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb32849728b/date
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