Port-au-Prince. The Senate resolves that senators will stand on the ramparts in case of siege

On 21 March a law determined the manner of collecting the tax laid on the rum distilleries, and the same day a decree conferred on the President of Haiti the right to conduct foreign relations and to sign, or cause to be signed, all treaties of alliance and of commerce with foreign powers. The same day a law was passed on the organization of the registration of civil and judicial acts and of title deeds. On 30 March cotton and cacao were made subject to the land tax: cotton at ten gourdes per thousand pounds, cacao at five gourdes per thousand pounds. On 4 April a law instituted four national festivals: 1st, that of Agriculture, on the first of May; 2nd, that of the Constitution, 5 July; 3rd, that of Liberty, 17 October, the memorable day of the death of the last tyrant; 4th, that of Independence, 1 January. It was decided that on 1 May trees of Liberty should be planted in every commune of the Republic. At its sitting of 4 April 1807 the Senate resolved that, should the town of Port-au-Prince come to undergo a siege, the Senators, in their ceremonial dress and wearing a red baldric, would take their stand on the ramparts; and on the 7th it declared in a state of revolt all the parts of Haiti subject to Christophe, and authorized the President of Haiti to send the vessels of the State cruising along Christophe’s coasts, to capture the rebel vessels and to issue letters of marque.