1816 (Administrative Transition): The collection includes extracts from the “Registers of the Deliberations of the Consuls of the Republic” which document th…

1816 (Administrative Transition): The collection includes extracts from the “Registers of the Deliberations of the Consuls of the Republic” which document the early legal and administrative foundations of the state. These documents were issued during the “year XI of the French Republic” under the authority of the “First Consul”. The specific decree cited in the papers was “Given at Paris, at the Palace of the Government,” dated the 27th of Brumaire. This administrative record is followed in the collection by a narrative describing the “Accession of their Royal Majesties to the Throne of Hayti”. This sequence illustrates the shift from republican deliberations to the establishment of the Haytian monarchy.