1916-04-05
Decree of 5 April 1916 institutes a Council of State
Haitian
Art. D. A Council of State, instituted on the same principles as that of the decree of the 5th of April 1916, composed of twenty-one members distributed among the different Departments, shall exercise the Legislative Power until the constitution of the Legislative Body, at which time the Council of State shall cease to exist.
Rouzier tells this under the entry Appendix: H: Constitution of the Republic of Haiti.
Source · p. t. IV, p. 116
Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. IV) (1928), p. t. IV, p. 116