Department of the Artibonite. Recalled in Pierrot’s proclamation as having pronounced its separation with the North in 1844.

“At that time, when security existed for no citizen, the Departments of the North and of the Artibonite believed that they too must pronounce their separation from those of the West and the South. But the immediate fall of the wicked man who had caused our civil troubles having brought to power the magnanimous Philippe Guerrier, there was no longer any reason to persist in this division of the Haitian territory, and the Republic was reconstituted under the rule of the laws, of which that illustrious citizen was the strict observer. His exemplary moderation led him to put an end to all hostilities against you. He recalled the army of Azua and branded the burning of that town and of the villages of Saint-Jean and Las Matas; he condemned the pillage of which their inhabitants were the victims; he received with kindness those of you who came to take refuge under his flags.