Saint-Domingue. Divided into North, West and South departments

By a decree of the captain-general of 2 Messidor, Year 10 (21 June 1802), the French part of Saint-Domingue was divided into three departments, the North, the West and the South. The department of the Artibonite was abolished. The department of the North, with its chief town at Cap-Français, was divided into six districts and subdivided into twenty-five communes or parishes. The districts of Port-de-Paix, the Môle Saint-Nicolas, Le Cap and Limbé contained four communes each; that of Fort-Liberté, four; and that of Limonade, five. The department of the West, with its chief town at Port-Républicain, was divided into four districts and subdivided into fourteen parishes. The district of Saint-Marc contained four parishes, that of Port-Républicain four, and those of Léogane and Jacmel three each. The department of the South, with its chief town at Les Cayes, was divided into four districts and subdivided into fourteen parishes. The district of Petit-Trou contained three parishes, that of Jérémie two, that of Tiburon two, that of Les Cayes five, and that of Saint-Louis two. The French part thus had fourteen districts and fifty-two parishes or communes. Each parish kept the boundaries it had had before 1792.