Port-au-Prince. The Constituent Assembly votes an indemnity for its members.

This remarkable speech of citizen Honoré Féry made little impression on the Assembly, the majority of which wished an indemnity to be voted. The deputy Nelson fils obtained the floor and supported the motion. The deputies Bergès and Dumai Lespinasse declared themselves against it, and immediately afterward it was seconded by the deputies Pyrrhus Michel, Bazin and Lubéris Jean-Charles. The deputy Exilien Heurtelou supported it, but he was of the opinion that the deputies of Port-au-Prince, who were living in their own homes, should be deprived of the indemnity (1), against which the deputies Auguste Elie, Dominique Benoit, Félix Poisson and Edmond Bonnet spoke. At last the vice-president, Honoré Féry, discharging the functions of president, put the motion to the vote. It was adopted by a majority of thirty-four votes against thirty. The deputy Bazin proposed to the Assembly that it remove to one of the other towns of the Republic, so that it might not be subject to influence.