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1801-05-08

Toussaint Louverture issued a new fiscal regulation abolishing the registration duty and the ten per cent on house rents…

Haitian

Toussaint Louverture issued a new fiscal regulation abolishing the registration duty and the ten per cent on house rents, keeping export duties at twenty per cent and import duties at ten, with six per cent on articles of first necessity, and requiring cargoes to be consigned to domiciled French merchants.

Source  ·  p. 343 to 345 Beaubrun Ardouin, Études sur l'histoire d'Haïti, suivies de la vie du général J.-M. Borgella (t. IV) (1853), p. 343 to 345