Port-au-Prince. A general depository of titles and documents of Saint-Domingue is formed here.

The captain-general, foreseeing that war would not be long in breaking out between France and England, and that communications with the mother country would soon be cut, ordered on 8 June that a general depository of the titles and documents relating to Saint-Domingue be formed at Port-Républicain (Port-au-Prince), to be sent to France at the first request of the consular government. The grand judge named Citizen Bascher archivist of the depository, with an annual salary of 8,000 francs. The establishment was to gather the titles relating to real property situated in the island, the deeds of concessions made to private persons by the government, the plans, the maps of the country and of the fortifications, the accounts of receipts and expenditures, the old ordinances, the decrees and regulations on the police, the finances, commerce, agriculture, and the civil, judicial and military administration; the laws sent from France, the regulations published in Saint-Domingue, and the documents on history, the sciences and the arts. These archives would be shipped to France before Rochambeau evacuated the island.