Maison Nationale (Port-au-Prince). The Council of State gives there the decree of 21 May 1845 on four-gourde treasury notes.

The President of Haiti orders that the above decree of the Council of State, which bears the issue of treasury notes of four gourdes, be invested with the seal of the Republic, printed, published and executed. Given at the National Palace of Cap-Haïtien, 2 June 1845, year 42 of Independence. Louis Pierrot. By the President: The Secretary of State for Finance and Commerce, Détré.

A short time afterward the rumor was spread that certain emissaries of France, disguised as priests, were propagating the idea of a restoration of French rule in Saint-Domingue. It was claimed that the leader of the plot was a priest named Albertini, who had left Haiti after the fall of Boyer. This news was unfounded; the French Government was thinking neither of dominion over Haiti nor of any protectorate. Factious men were spreading these rumors to increase the anxiety that already existed in people’s minds.

Law on land surveying. Decree which re-establishes the export duty, reduces the land tax on some produce, and abolishes that tax on logwood, lignum vitae, brazilwood, and fustic or yellow wood. Rinchère, Léo Hérard, Tullus Hérard, Merveilleux Hérard, Saint-Cyr Bourjolly, Joseph Racolier, Favard Villemenay, Roy are banished from the territory of the Republic. Mass in memory of Philippe Guerrier. Address of the citizens of the Department of the South to President Pierrot. The ship’s captain Lartigue, commanding the French naval subdivision in the waters of Haiti, fixes the position of two madrepores, or banks, not far from the Arcadins, in the gulf of La Gonâve.

CHAPTER SIX.

1845.

Two days after the departure of President Pierrot from Port-au-Prince, the Council of State decreed an issue of treasury notes of four gourdes, up to the amount of 800,000 gourdes. The President, before his departure, had proposed this measure.