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1890-09-10

Law creates a gendarmerie company for Caracol

Haitian

Caracol. Former poste militaire of the arrondissement of the Trou, situated in the preceding rural section. These are two small bourgades called the Grand and the Petit Caracol. It was erected into a commune by the decree of the provisional government of the North dated at Saint-Marc on 3 August 1889. Population: 5,000 souls. The garrison of the commune is composed of a company of gendarmerie created by the law of 10 September 1890, one of administrative police, one of line artillery, the rural police, and the national guard on foot and on horseback.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Caracol.

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 186 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 186