Before separating, the Senate confers on Pétion authority to make provisional civil and military appointments and to settle army regulations; it adjourns on 16 July.

The Senate, presided over by Théodat Trichet, before separating, conferred upon the President of Haiti, by its decree of 1 July, “the authority to make provisionally all the appointments and replacements which circumstances might require in the bodies both civil and military, to settle all police regulations which he should judge necessary to the discipline of the army, to fix the pay of the military of all grades and the manner of distributing it to them.”