The road to Marchand. Poles formed into a prison guard; decree of 1 April 1804 issued there.

The governor-general left Port-au-Prince, leaving the command of the arrondissement to Colonel Germain Frère. He passed through the Arcahaie and Saint-Marc and halted at Marchand. In all these places the French were exterminated. At Marchand he gathered most of the Poles who had remained in the country and formed them into a battalion charged with guarding the prison. At almost the same time he learned that Frenchmen who had obtained letters of naturalization as Swedes or Danes were coming to trade in Haiti. To keep them from appearing again in the country under any cockade whatever, he issued the following decree:

Liberty or Death. DECREE OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL. At the Quarter of Marchand, 1 April 1804, Year 1 of Independence.

The governor-general, considering that the French, proscribed and banished from this island, are soliciting letters of naturalization in neutral countries, under cover of which they would introduce themselves into the country in order to bring discord back to it, DECREES:

Art. 1. Every Frenchman who has obtained letters of naturalization from a foreign power shall be bound to leave the country.

Art. 2. The generals commanding the departments and quarters in which Frenchmen reside who have obtained letters of naturalization from foreign powers shall forward the letters of the said naturalized persons to the governor-general before being authorized to grant them a passport. The Governor-General, (Signed) DESSALINES.