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1808-08-03

Pétion informs the Senate of the new arrondissement

Haitian

This arrondissement was created by President Pétion in 1808, during his tour of the South. The head of State had afterwards given notice of it to the Senate on 3 August. Tiburon was at first its chief town. Colonel Nicolas Regnier, born at the Anglais, commanded it. In its session of the 4th, the Senate, deliberating on the change made in the territory of the Republic, disapproved the conduct of the president in view of the formal terms of the constitution, which said, in title II, of the territory, art. 32: The Senate shall fix the number of arrondissements and parishes there shall be in each department, and shall designate their limits. The Senate may change and rectify the limits of the departments, arrondissements and parishes, when it shall judge it fitting.” President Pétion had therefore strayed from the circle of his powers in forming this arrondissement without a ruling of the Senate. And the constitution, title 7, art. 122, said: “The President of Haiti may at any time invite the Senate in writing to take an object into consideration; he may propose measures to it, but not…

Rouzier tells this under the entry TIBURON.

Source  ·  p. t. IV, p. 185 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. IV) (1928), p. t. IV, p. 185