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1805-08-01

By a decree of 1 August 1805, issued after the American ship Louisiana left Port-au-Prince without paying export duties…

Haitian

By a decree of 1 August 1805, issued after the American ship Louisiana left Port-au-Prince without paying export duties, every foreign captain arriving in an open port was bound to consign himself to a commercial house, which became surety for all duties, on pain of confiscation of ship and merchandise.

Source  ·  p. 177, 178 Beaubrun Ardouin, Études sur l'histoire d'Haïti, suivies de la vie du général J.-M. Borgella (t. VI) (1856), p. 177, 178