Paris. Consular decree of 13 Brumaire Year 10 issued there

It was remarked that in his proclamation the general-in-chief promised the colony regular institutions, but not liberal ones. On the same day an extract from the registers of the deliberations of the Consuls of the Republic was published in the official gazette of Saint-Domingue. The decree had been issued at Paris on 13 Brumaire, Year 10 of the Republic one and indivisible.

The French part of Saint-Domingue was provisionally governed by three magistrates: a Captain-General, a Colonial Prefect, and a Commissioner of Justice.

Under the principal articles defining the powers of these magistrates, the captain-general had under his direct orders the land and sea forces, the national guards and the gendarmerie. He was exclusively charged with the external and internal defense of the colony, etc.