Haïti: copy of the code rural of that island
Contributors: Boyer, Jean Pierre, 1776-1850; Haiti; Haiti. President (1818-1843 : Boyer)
Series: Great Britain. Parliamentary papers -- 393.
Publisher: Ordered by the House of Commons, to be printed
Published: 1827
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Agricultural laws and legislation; Animals; Boundaries (Estates); Private roads; Law and legislation; Adjoining landowners; Agricultural laborers
Work titles: Code rural (1826)
Notes: Title from caption.

Printed at lower left hand corner: 393.

Issued as a Parliamentary paper.

Dated on p. 18: From the national palace at Port-au-Prince, this 6th day of May 1826, twenty-third year of independence, Boyer, by the president.

English translation of the Code rural of Haiti, as issued by the president Boyer and printed in Port-au-Prince in 1826; the code covered such issues as boundaries between estates, laborers and landowners, farm animals and grazing, the maintenance of public and private roads, and rural policing.

Signatures: A-E² (-E2)

Cf. Bissainthe, M. Dict. de bib. haïtienne, 818 (Port-au-Prince, 1826)

John Carter Brown Library copy unbound as sewn as issued.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Brewington Fund.