Les Cayes, Fort-Dauphin, Jacmel, Jérémie, Port-de-Paix. Named as a port open to foreign trade

“Our ports are Le Cap, Fort-Dauphin, Port-de-Paix, Les Gonaïves, Saint-Marc, Port-au-Prince, Les Cayes, Jérémie and Jacmel. You may send your cargoes there. “The exactness with which the government of Haiti has always fulfilled its engagements is a sure pledge of the execution of the treaties it may conclude with you. Despite the evils that preceded our independence and the disastrous wars it necessarily occasioned, the government has never ceased to be able to meet its needs. Such is the extent of our resources that even the vices of the preceding administration did not prevent settlements from being made. What then will it be when a wise economy succeeds prodigality, and a just apportionment of the revenues determines the rights of the government and of private persons?”