The Senate recalls Gérin to the seat he had resigned and has him reinstalled at once; he arrived at Port-au-Prince on 12 December.

Nevertheless, five days had not yet elapsed when, on 17 December, the Senate, impatient at not seeing Pétion yield to its invitation, recalled Gérin to the seat which he had previously occupied in its bosom and from which he had lately resigned of his own will.

And to fill the measure of the trials of the power which it believed itself to possess and wished to make the executive power feel, the Senate required that this resolution be carried out without the least delay. Accordingly it summoned Gérin, to reinstall him then and there.