Port-au-Prince. Named seat of the Central Assembly

He had become the absolute master of the whole island; the French government no longer exercised any influence there. He resolved to convoke a new central assembly which, under his influence, would give the colony a Constitution by which his authority would be guaranteed. On 5 February 1801 he published that on 1 March the municipal administrations would be convoked to proceed to the nomination of deputies to the central assembly; that each municipal administration would name a single deputy; that this choice would be made by the members composing the municipal administrations, by plurality of votes, and in case of a tie the choice would fall on the eldest candidate; that on 11 March (20 Ventôse, Year 9) the deputies so named by the municipal administrations would meet at the chief town of each department, namely: those of the department of the North at Le Cap; those of the West at Port-Républicain; those of the South at Les Cayes; those of Samaná at Santiago; those of the Ingano at Santo Domingo; that the deputies of the communes, assembled in the chief towns of the departments, would name two deputies to the central assembly of the colony, whose seat would be fixed at Port-Républicain; that the deputies to the central assembly would be named by plurality of votes by the deputies of the communes assembled in the chief towns of the departments; that in case of a tie the choice would fall on the eldest; that a record of their nomination would be drawn up, which would serve as their credentials for admission to the assembly; and that the central assembly, composed of ten deputies and meeting at Port-Républicain, would begin its work on 22 March 1801 (1 Germinal).