The commission reports to the Secretary of State of the Interior

In December 1890 the government sent a commission to lay out a town at La Gonâve. This commission, composed of Messrs. L. G. Tippenhauer, J. C. Wainright and V. Jeannot, chose the beach of L’Anse-à-Galets for laying out the said town, on the indications that I had furnished to Mr. Tippenhauer. It reported on its mission to the secretary of state for the interior on 5 December (Moniteur of 20 December 1890). The plateau on which a town can be built comprises 580,000 square metres, or 0.58 square km; it is bounded on the north by the beach of Le Vieux-Magasin, on the east by the Saline, on the south by the foot of the mornes and on the west by the banks of the Ravine. All the streets will cross at right angles, with the exception of the shore street, which follows the contour of the beach. They will be 18 metres wide. There are seven of them, running from south to north. Eleven transverse streets will run from east to west. The streets will form 52 blocks whose sides will have 102 metres of frontage. One block, in the high part of the plateau, will be reserved for the altar of the…

Rouzier tells this under the entry Gonâve (la).