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Code Henry

The first comprehensive legal code of the Kingdom of Haiti, promulgated by King Henry Christophe on February 20, 1812 — a sovereign act of juridical self-determination just eight years after the world's only successful slave revolution produced an independent nation. This digital edition presents the complete Code in 3,004 articles spanning 8 laws and 67 titres — from the Loi Civile's 1,535 articles on personhood, marriage, property, and succession, to the Loi sur la Procédure Criminelle's 421 articles on investigation, confrontation, and royal clemency. Every article has been hand-extracted from 19th-century OCR, corrected, translated into English, and annotated with plain-language life lessons and scholarly notes. Browse in French, English, or Kreyòl Ayisyen. 3,004 articles · 8 laws · 3 languages · 213 years restored

3,004 articles in the Code Henry

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Article 30 Law Concerning Agriculture
Agriculture
They are likewise required to furnish the equipment and utensils used in the operation of the plantations.
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They are likewise required to furnish the equipment and utensils used in the operation of the plantations.

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Article 31 Law Concerning Agriculture
Agriculture
The owners, tenant farmers, managers, and foremen of sugar plantations shall take the proper precautions to carry out the planting of cane in the appropriate...
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The owners, tenant farmers, managers, and foremen of sugar plantations shall take the proper precautions to carry out the planting of cane in the appropriate manner.

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Article 32 Law Concerning Agriculture
Quality Control
The owners or tenant farmers, or in their absence the managers, are required to manufacture sugar with the necessary care and precautions to render it...
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The owners or tenant farmers, or in their absence the managers, are required to manufacture sugar with the necessary care and precautions to render it of superior quality; to this end, they shall take care to have it well washed and skimmed, and before the sugar is fit for delivery, it must have been purged of its syrup for a period of three months. The hogsheads shall be marked with the name of the owner or tenant farmer of the plantation, and that of the parish, so that the true origin of the sugar can be verified when needed.

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Article 33 Law Concerning Agriculture
Agriculture
The owners or tenant farmers of coffee plantations are required to build proper storehouses for the coffee and drying platforms for its drying; they shall...
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The owners or tenant farmers of coffee plantations are required to build proper storehouses for the coffee and drying platforms for its drying; they shall have hulling and winnowing mills built, and shall carefully provide the sacks, sieves, and other utensils necessary for the processing of this commodity. They are likewise required to supply the agricultural tools as prescribed by Article 9 of Title I.

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Article 34 Law Concerning Agriculture
Agriculture
The owners, tenant farmers, managers, and foremen of coffee plantations shall take care to have the coffee trees properly pruned, to tend, cut back, and...
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The owners, tenant farmers, managers, and foremen of coffee plantations shall take care to have the coffee trees properly pruned, to tend, cut back, and maintain the old trees, to provide the necessary number of weedings at the appropriate time, and to establish new plantations on land where the forest has already been cleared; but they shall only clear new forest when they can plant and maintain it without neglecting the cultivation of existing plantations.

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Article 35 Law Concerning Agriculture
Conservation
The law concerning the leasing of royal lands having limited to one-third of the existing standing timber the quantity that each plantation tenant farmer has...
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The law concerning the leasing of royal lands having limited to one-third of the existing standing timber the quantity that each plantation tenant farmer has the right to fell for commodity planting, the tenant farmers are required, under the penalty prescribed by said law, not to fell a greater quantity of standing timber than that authorized; and they shall always take care not to expose the mountain summits and to preserve intact a sufficient quantity of standing timber to provide useful materials for the plantation establishments; owners are subject to the same obligations and consequently the same penalties in case of violation.

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Article 36 Law Concerning Agriculture
Quality Control
The owners, tenant farmers, managers, and foremen are required to bring to the preparation of coffee the proper precautions to render it of superior quality;...
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The owners, tenant farmers, managers, and foremen are required to bring to the preparation of coffee the proper precautions to render it of superior quality; to this end, they shall take care to tend it properly on the drying platform, to ensure it does not become too rotten or overheated; and when it is dry, they shall take the precaution of storing it so as not to expose it to weather; finally in the final preparations, they shall ensure it is well cleaned and sorted, removing the husks, stones, and other debris that ordinarily mix with it, so as to deliver it beautiful and merchantable.

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Article 37 Law Concerning Agriculture
Worker Protection
It is expressly forbidden for owners and tenant farmers of coffee plantations to have the produce transported, whether to parish towns or to port landings,...
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It is expressly forbidden for owners and tenant farmers of coffee plantations to have the produce transported, whether to parish towns or to port landings, on the heads of agricultural workers; said owners and tenant farmers being required to provide the animals necessary for transporting the produce from their plantations.

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Article 38 Law Concerning Agriculture
Agriculture
The owners and tenant farmers of cotton plantations shall build the appropriate structures for housing and manufacturing cotton, establish the necessary number of ginning mills,...
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The owners and tenant farmers of cotton plantations shall build the appropriate structures for housing and manufacturing cotton, establish the necessary number of ginning mills, and provide the utensils and tools required, as prescribed by Article 9.

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Article 39 Law Concerning Agriculture
Quality Control
They shall employ the proper methods to prepare and clean the cotton neatly before having it baled. The bales shall be made of good cloth,...
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They shall employ the proper methods to prepare and clean the cotton neatly before having it baled. The bales shall be made of good cloth, shall contain at least three hundred pounds of cotton, and shall be marked with the name of the plantation owner or tenant farmer and that of the parish where they were manufactured.

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Article 40 Law Concerning Agriculture
Healthcare
The owners and tenant farmers of indigo works shall be required to build and maintain the necessary facilities for the prosperity of these manufactories; and...
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The owners and tenant farmers of indigo works shall be required to build and maintain the necessary facilities for the prosperity of these manufactories; and they shall take the precaution, as a health measure, to establish them as far as possible from the living quarters; they shall likewise provide the agricultural tools, utensils, and other movable objects indispensable to the manufacture of indigo.

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Article 41 Law Concerning Agriculture
Quality Control
They are likewise required to deliver their indigo only when it has reached the degree of preparation that renders it beautiful and merchantable; the sacks,...
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They are likewise required to deliver their indigo only when it has reached the degree of preparation that renders it beautiful and merchantable; the sacks, crates, or barrels containing the indigo shall be marked with the name of the owner or tenant farmer, and that of the parish from which it originates.

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Article 42 Law Concerning Agriculture
Agriculture
The owners or tenant farmers of cacao plantations are required to build the useful structures for this manufactory, and to provide the tools and utensils...
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The owners or tenant farmers of cacao plantations are required to build the useful structures for this manufactory, and to provide the tools and utensils that are necessary for it.

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Article 43 Law Concerning Agriculture
Quality Control
The owners, tenant farmers, managers, and foremen of said plantations are required to prepare the cacao with care, and to deliver it only after it...
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The owners, tenant farmers, managers, and foremen of said plantations are required to prepare the cacao with care, and to deliver it only after it has acquired the appropriate degree of dryness.

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Article 44 Law Concerning Agriculture
Penalties
All owners, tenant farmers, managers, or foremen of plantations or manufactories shall strictly comply with what is prescribed to them by this title and by...
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All owners, tenant farmers, managers, or foremen of plantations or manufactories shall strictly comply with what is prescribed to them by this title and by the first, on pain of incurring the penalties set forth in Title VII on Offenses and Penalties.

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Article 45 Law Concerning Agriculture
Agriculture
The King's lieutenants of the parishes, police officers, the owners, tenant farmers, managers, and foremen, are required to promote the cultivation of the plantations and...
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The King's lieutenants of the parishes, police officers, the owners, tenant farmers, managers, and foremen, are required to promote the cultivation of the plantations and to push it to the highest degree of prosperity.

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Article 46 Law Concerning Agriculture
Food Security
The urgency of food plantations being generally recognized, provisions and grains of every kind shall be planted on all plantations throughout the kingdom. The number...
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The urgency of food plantations being generally recognized, provisions and grains of every kind shall be planted on all plantations throughout the kingdom. The number of carreaux of land specifically designated for planting for the King's service shall be planted according to the strength of the work crews, in the manner hereinafter determined.

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Article 47 Law Concerning Agriculture
Food Security
Every plantation having twenty agricultural workers shall plant one carreau of land in provisions and grains, and so on progressively, more or less, according to...
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Every plantation having twenty agricultural workers shall plant one carreau of land in provisions and grains, and so on progressively, more or less, according to the strength of the work crews, said provisions and grains being at the disposal of the administration of finance and the interior.

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Article 48 Law Concerning Agriculture
Agriculture
The authorities charged with carrying out the planting of provisions and grains, as well as the owners, tenant farmers, managers, and foremen, shall take care,...
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The authorities charged with carrying out the planting of provisions and grains, as well as the owners, tenant farmers, managers, and foremen, shall take care, before executing the prescribed plantings, to seize the appropriate seasons for carrying them out, and to plant the kinds and species of provisions best suited to the different soil qualities; they shall ensure that the cultivation of provisions does not impair that of the export commodities, always taking care to maintain both cultivations together.

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Article 49 Law Concerning Agriculture
Food Security
The authorities shall ensure that the food plots planted on lands designated for the King's service are well tended and maintained, as are the other...
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The authorities shall ensure that the food plots planted on lands designated for the King's service are well tended and maintained, as are the other plantations. These provisions shall be specifically placed in reserve; no one may touch them or order their harvesting without an order issued by the administration of finance and the interior, countersigned by the district commander.