Jacmel. Coffee worth one thousand gourdes held there for the deputies of the North

Meanwhile the Senate, assembled in Port-au-Prince, was organizing the government of the Republic. On 18 January, using the provisions of article 42 of the constitution, by which it could make appointments to all civil and military offices, it called General Pétion to the command of the department of the West and Gérin to that of the department of the South. And on the motion of a senator, and by virtue of article 68 of the constitution, it resolved that Citizens Paul Romain, Toussaint Brave, Magny and Charairon, whom it regarded as having been led astray by Christophe, should be invited to come from the North and sit in the Senate within fifteen days. The next day it named Citizen Blanchet the elder Secretary of State, charged with the executive power while the presidency was vacant; and on the 21st, under the presidency of Magloire Ambroise, it decreed that the generals commanding the departments should be charged with maintaining order in the towns and the countryside, and, in view of the needs of the deputies of the department of the North, former members of the Constituent Assembly, that a quantity of coffee equal to the sum of one thousand gourdes should be held at their disposal at Jacmel. This decree was passed in favor of those deputies of the North who, having embraced the party of the Republic, could no longer return to their own country. Among them were noted Manigat, Larose, Télémaque and Simon Boisbel, citizens of distinction. Those who had signed the protest against the constitution had embarked in all haste for the North immediately after the battle of Sibert on 1 January.