A. D. Sabourin & al.

“ The Senate will instruct the President of Haïti on the nomination of new Senators; who should render themselves to their offices within the period of 15 days after notification of their election.
111. The Senators to be elected cannot in any case be taken from among the Members of the House of the Communes in office.
112. A Senator cannot be reelected except after an interval of three years.
113. The Senate is charged with the filing of the Constitution.
114. The Senate is permanent; it cannot adjourn during the session of the House of Representatives of the Communes. ”

“ Every citizen owes his services to the fatherland and to the maintenance of liberty, of equality and of property, all the beliefs which the law calls on him to defend.
28. The house of each citizen is an inviolable asylum. During the night, no one has the right to enter there except in case of fire, of flood, or of request from the interior of the house. ”

“ Every man regardless of either his place or his employment, other than those to whom the law gives the right of arrest, who will give, sign, execute or cause to execute the order to arrest an individual, or whosoever in the same case of arrest authorized by law, will conduct, receive or restrain an individual in a place of detention not publically and legally designated ”

“ No Citizen if he is not aged twenty-five years at least, can be a judge or a Commissioner of the Executive Power.
OF CIVIL JUSTICE. 178. The right to allow disputes to decided by arbiters of the parties' choice cannot be infringed.
179. The decisions of these arbiters is without appeal if the parties have not expressly reserved it.
180. The Legislative Power determines by a law, the number of Justices of the Peace and of their assessors within each Department.
181. The law equally determines the objects which the Justices of the Peace and their Assessors know as a last resort ”

“ Senate in its Address to the People,
on the date of last February 6.
THE HAYTIAN PEOPLE proclaim, in the presence of the Supreme Being, the present Constitution of the Republic of Haïti, in order to consecrate forever its Liberty and its Independence.
FIRST TITLE. GENERAL DISPOSITIONS. FIRST ARTICLE There cannot exist slaves within the territory of the Republic: slavery is forever abolished.
2. All debt contracted for the acquisition of men is extinguished forever.
3. The right of asylum is sacred and inviolable within the Republic, save in case of exception provided by law. ”

“ Marriage, by its civil and relgious institution, tending to the purity of mores, spouses who practice the virtues required by their state will be always distinguished and specially protected by the Government. ”

“ Those who overtly violate the laws declare themselves to be in a state of war against society.
25. Those who, without openly violating the laws, evade them through ruse or through phrasing, harm the interests of all and render themselves unworthy of benevolence and of esteem. ”

“ Every guardian or caretaker is required, without any order needing to be received by them, to represent the detained person to the Civil Officer having the policy of the House of detention, every time that it will be required by that officer. ”

“ The obligations of each to society consist in defending, serving, and living in accordance with the laws, and respecting those who are its organs.
22. No one is a good citizen if he is not a good son, good father, good brother, good friend, good husband. ”

“ Representation of the person detained shall not be able to be refused to his parents and friends bearing the officer's order, which will be always held to grant it, unless the caretaker presents a Judge's order transcribed on his register in order to hold the person arrested in secret. ”

“ The law determines the number of Criminal Tribunals in each Department, the place where they will be established, their mode of organization and the territory forming their jurisdiction.
198. The Civil Judges can exercise the offices of Criminal Judges.
199. The Legislative Power shall be able to establish the procedure by trials in criminal matters.
200. A Tribunal of Cassation will be established for all the Republic, whose mode of organization and attributes will be fixed by law. ”

“ The members of the House of the Communes receive an indemnity evaluated at Two hundred gourdes per month during their session and One gourde per league which they will have made in order to reach the seat of Government, which indemnity is charged to their respective Commune, after the mode which will be established by law. ”