Borgella & al.

“ There cannot exist in the colony corporations or associations that are contrary to public order.
No citizen association shall be qualified as popular society. All seditious gathering shall be dissipated immediately, first by way of verbal order and, if necessary, by development of armed force. ”

“ Art. 20. No law relative to the internal administration of the colony shall be promulgated unless it contain the following formula: The Central Assembly of Saint-Domingue, upon the proposition of the Governor, renders the following law:
Art. 21. No law shall be obligatory to the citizen until the day it is promulgated in the chief town of departments. The promulgation of law shall take place as follows: In the name [5] of the French colony of Saint-Domingue, the Governor orders that the subsequent law be sealed, promulgated and executed in all of the colony. ”

“ Property is sacred and inviolable. All people, either by himself, or by his representatives, has the free right to dispose and to administer property that is recognized as belonging to him. Anyone who attempts to deny this right shall become guilty of crime towards society and responsible towards the person troubled in his property.
TITLE VI Of Cultures and Commerce Art. 14. The colony being essentially agricultural cannot suffer the least disruption in the works of its cultivation.
Art. 15. Each habitation shall constitute a manufacture that requires the gathering of cultivators and workers ”

“ Saint-Domingue in its entire expanse, and Samana, La Tortue, La Gonâve, Les Cayemites, L'Ile-à-Vache, La Saône and other adjacent islands form the territory of a single colony, which is part of the French Empire, but ruled under particular laws.
Art. 2. The territory of this colony is divided in departments, districts (arrondissements) and parishes.
TITLE II Of the Inhabitants Art. 3. There cannot exist slaves on this territory, servitude is therein forever abolished. All men are born, live and die free and French.
Art. 4. All men, regardless of color, are eligible to all employment. ”

“ The residence of any person shall constitute an inviolable asylum. [16] During nighttime, no one shall have the right to enter therein unless in case of fire, flooding or upon request from within. During the day, one shall have access for a special determined object or, by a law, or by order issued from a public authority. ”

“ In other parishes, municipal administrations shall be composed of a mayor and two administrators; a substitute commissary of the responsible tribunal shall hold the function of commissary near the municipality gratuitously.
Art. 49. Members of these municipal administrations shall be nominated for two years; they may always continue beyond that time. Their nomination devolves to the Governor, who, on a list of at least sixteen individuals, presented by each municipal administration, chooses the persons most appropriate to manage the affairs of each parish. ”

“ Art. 44. Justice shall be administered in the colony by Courts of first instance and by Courts of appeal. The law determines their organization, their number, their competence and the territory of each Courtís jurisdiction. These tribunals, according to their degree of jurisdiction, shall recognize all civil and criminal affairs.
Art. 45. There shall exist for the colony a Court of Cassation that shall pronounce on demands of annulments against judgments rendered by Appeal Courts, and issue opinions against an entire tribunal. ”