Department of the South. Salgado is named its vicar general.

“Formerly, when the island of Haiti belonged to two metropolitan powers, there existed in the eastern part an archbishopric whose titular resided in the city of Santo-Domingo, seat of the diocese, and the western part was administered spiritually only by a Prefect Apostolic. But the entire independence of the island having been proclaimed in 1804, the prefecture apostolic ceased by that fact alone, since by that forever memorable act all distinction of territory ceased in the island. The design of that glorious work having been accomplished in 1822, the archbishop Pedro Valera, who resided at Santo-Domingo, rightly took the title of Archbishop of Haiti, and instituted the reverend father Joseph Salgado his vicar general for the departments of the West and the South, at the same time as he instituted the reverend father Correa y Cidron his vicar general for the Artibonite, and the reverend father Pichardo his vicar general for the North. The pastoral letter of this pious prelate, as to the title of the vicar general Salgado, bears the date of 2 December 1823, that is to say seven months before the cardinal Jules M. de Somaglio, pro-Prefect of the Propaganda, had made known, by his letter dated at Rome on 24 July 1824 and addressed to the President of Haiti, that the intentions of the Holy Father were that the Archbishop Valera should exercise episcopal jurisdiction over the whole territory of Haiti.