Alexandria Daily Advertiser

PHILADELPHIA. NOV. 4.

Arrived on Saturday, schooner Adela, captain Auten, 18 days from Cape Francois. By his arrival we have seen Cape papers to the 4th ult. from which we have translated the following decrees, regulating the trade of the Haytian empire:

Imperial Decree,

Jacques I. Emperor Hayti,

Commander in chief of the armies by the Grace of God and the constitutional law of the state.

Desirous to dispense equally and without distinction the favours of the government, and to secure to the authorised consignees, and this without respect to private interests or particular privileges, the benefits resulting from the imperial decrees, Aug. present year:

Decrees as follows, to be executed thro' out the whole extent of the empire.

Article 1.

All authorised commercial houses for receiving consignments shall have and exercise equal and similar rights, agreeably to the favor granted by the above mentioned law.

2. Consequently according to the principle of the preceding article, each consignee shall be permitted in his turn, and following the order of the number affixed to his commission, to sell and have responsibility of foreign vessels.

3.
Ordered, or whatever his claims shall require, that an authorized consignee however This distribution shall be calculated on a number of vessels exceeding those waived by other consignees. Which merchant or already commissioned is required to present his patent to the secretary general of the government, who will impose it the requisite formality. Done at the Imperial Palace, Sept. 6.

Imperial Decree.

Jacques I. Emperor of Hayti, commander in chief of the army by the Grace of God and the constitutional law of the state.

Desirous of restraining the frequent abuse in the receipt of the duties of importation and exportation, as also in the receipt of the tax of one fourth, levied on the territorial produce:

Considering the necessity of restricting the exportation of specie to foreign countries

Considering moreover the necessity of inflicting upon fraudulent speculators and public dilapidators, punishments commensurate with the crimes they commit:

Decrees as follow, to be carried into effect throughout the whole extent of the empire:

Art. 1. Every vessel which shall be discovered trespassing against the laws, either as it relates to the duties of importation or of exportation, shall together with her cargo, be confiscated for the benefit of the state.

2. When a vessel shall be suspected of fraud the armed force shall be called upon by the administrator of the place, who assisted by the collector of the custom house in the presence of the comptroller and the commandant of the peace, shall proceed to unloading and examination thereof, in the strictest manner; a process verbal of which shall be drawn up and immediately forwarded to the minister of finances.

3. Every collector of a place in which a vessel shall be seized for fraud, either on account of the duties of importation or of exportation, shall be deprived of his property, and punished with the utmost rigour of the law.

4. Every authorized mercantile house receiving consignments, is bound to make known to the administrator of the place, before the vessel consigned to it be permitted to sail, the amount of the sale of her cargo in produce, and the surplus of the specie which it has not been able to convert into produce. shall be deposited in the treasury: a receipt for the amount thereof shall be given by the said Administrator, payable in the produce of the place, at the current prices, and to the order of the bearer.

5. The consignees should be required to produce (in addition to the statement of duties made out by the collector upon the cargo of each vessel, the permits for the pass thereof, which shall be deposited in the office of the administrator.

6. Every foreign vessel shall be required within twenty-four hours after her arrival in any port, to declare her intention of disposing of the cargo there, or of sailing to another port.

7. Every individual who shall be convicted of having purchased goods without receiving a regular permit therewith, shall be imprisoned six months; and his property confiscated.

8.

Every holder of a permit to dispose his goods, is required to deposit it in the revenue Office (bureau des domain) a quantity of new permits, proportionate to the amount of goods he may have on hand, shall be delivered to him.

9. Every Haytian, of whatever rank or proportion he may be, who shall be convicted of having sold produce before having paid the rent of his farm, the impost of one fourth, and the proportion received by cultivators, shall be prosecuted criminally,

10. Every one renting or owning a farm, shall be obliged to carry the amount of the one fourth belonging to the cultivators to the office of the justice of the peace to be divided amongst the commandants in the presence of the place who and all both certify the account: sales of the said farmers or proprietors

Done at the imperial palace, Gonaives, 7th Sept. 1805.

DESSALINES.