Le Cap. Toussaint arrives; the Central Assembly moves here in mid-May

On 25 April the governor went to Le Cap. On his arrival in that town Citizen Gombaut, judge of the civil court, followed by the civil and military authorities, presented himself before him and addressed to him a speech in which, after complimenting him on the conquest of the South and the East, he compared him to Bacchus, conqueror of the Indies. The governor hastened to invite the Central Assembly, by a letter dated 1 May addressed to its president Borgella, to embark for Le Cap. The members of the assembly arrived in that town toward the middle of May and continued their sittings there. On the 22nd of the same month the governor installed in person Citizen Periès as commissioner of the government to the municipal administration of Le Cap. The civil court of the department of the North was completely disorganized; its members, though honest, were without learning. Toussaint reformed it entirely and installed it on 26 May. In his speech these words were remarked: after God, justice. He established a letter post in the department of the North, as well as in that of Samaná, such as already existed in the West and the South. We have seen that he had forbidden the export of the mahogany already cut in the departments of the Ingano and Samaná; but this prohibition having plunged the people of those districts into deep poverty, he revoked it and permitted the owners of the timber to export it on payment of a duty of 25 percent.