Le Cap. Vernet’s accounting instructions issued from headquarters.

“Given at headquarters at Le Cap, 4 May 1804, Year 1 of Independence. The general of division, councilor of State, Vernet. I order that the present mode of organization be carried out provisionally until such time as I shall have ruled in the last resort on the various branches of the administration. The governor-general, Dessalines. A true copy, the secretary of the minister of finance, Vastey the elder.” *