The Assembly adopted the constitution of 1806 unanimously, and twenty-four dissenting deputies of the North-West signed an act of protest.

It was only on 27 December, however, after having signed the constitutional act, that the twenty-four dissenters signed among themselves, and surreptitiously, an act of protest, in which the eleven others took no part, as might have been expected. And what would be less comprehensible, if we did not already know the terror that Christophe inspired, is that after the battle of Sibert, of the twenty-four dissenters, only fifteen returned to their departments, while nine preferred to remain at Port-au-Prince. Finally, of the total number of thirty-five deputies, dissenting or rallied, twenty never again abandoned the Republic (1), and fifteen would not serve it and took the road to the North again (2).