1808-11-30
The Senate names Bonnet secretary of state, the post vacant since Télémaque’s death.
Haitian
But for a moment the Senate seemed to wish to leave the dangerous path on which it had embarked, in order to occupy itself with the true general interests of the Republic: an act dated 30 November raised Bonnet to the functions of secretary of state, vacant since the death of Télémaque, and provisionally filled by Imbert, comptroller of finances.
Source · p. 137
Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 5 (Paris: Auguste Durand, 1857), p. 137; English translation, Rasanblaj.