--- Page 1 --- I --- Page 2 --- -TA - A - MAODE Jabir Carier Broir fibnany Bromnt Hnitrersity Harmions * The John Carter Brown * d * Library * Brown University * d d & Purchased from the dOR * S0F Louisa D. Sharpe MetcalfFund dON * :o 50 S: --- Page 3 --- Jur --- Page 4 --- B --- Page 5 --- L de - 200 U de -C Pulai Esismo sphae Moik lhe Ceblidaw Refhecty --- Page 6 --- 73-220 a oit E --- Page 7 --- MEO - Konei EO a MURGEUN EXTRACTS a FROM THE CODE RURAL (OE HAYTL --- Page 8 --- EXTR ACTS FROM THE CODE RURAL OF HAYTI Art. 173. The Police Rural has ior its object : Ist. The repressing ofvagabondage, labour, 2d. The directing of assiduity in agricultural Sd. The discipline of the labourer, of the roads, 4th. The making and. keeping in repair both public and private. who are not or renArt. 174. All persons proprictors or who shall ters of the land on which they are residing, or not have made a contract to work with some proprietor be arrested renter, shall be reputed vagabonds, and shall be by the Rural Police of the section in which they may of the found, and carried before the Justice of the Peace district. Art. 175. The Justice of the Peace, after interrogating and hearing the person brought before him, shall make known to him the articles of the law, which oblige him that to employ himself in agricultural labour; ; and, after communication, he shall remand bim to prison until he shall agree to labour, according to the provisions of the law. Art. 176. The Justice of the Peace will allow the person arrested to makehis own choice of theindividualwitk whom he is to contract to Jabour. the Art. 177. If after eight days of detention, shall prisoner be sent shall not have agreed to go to field work, he he shall to the public work of the town Or district where until he be arrested, and therein he shall be employed shall consent to go to field labour. The person who shall him detach any labourer from the public works, to cmploy in working for a private individual, shall be subject to a fne of50 dollars, of which a moiety to be paid to the persons Art. complaining. 178. If the prisoner be a child under age, the Justice of the Peace shall enquire out his parents, and send him to them to follow their condition of life. from the Art. 179. After the expiration of three months publication of this Code, compulsion shall be used against delinqueuts. to go to field labour. The person who shall him detach any labourer from the public works, to cmploy in working for a private individual, shall be subject to a fne of50 dollars, of which a moiety to be paid to the persons Art. complaining. 178. If the prisoner be a child under age, the Justice of the Peace shall enquire out his parents, and send him to them to follow their condition of life. from the Art. 179. After the expiration of three months publication of this Code, compulsion shall be used against delinqueuts. --- Page 9 --- 2 3 SERSEHSNUE EM attached to the country as a cullivator, 180. Every person working day, and during hours of labour, roads, who shall, ona or lounging on the pablic and taken be found unemployed, idle, and shall be arrested, him to shall be considered ofthe Peace, who shall commit shall before the Justice for the first offence, and of prison for twenty-fourhoute ihe works for a repetition send him to labour on public the offence, against vagabondage under preArt. 181. To provide tence of being Officers a soldier. of the Rural Police shall take live care in Art. 182., sections no person shall to that in their Tespective they have authority oblige renidleness : for this purpose employed in labour to such persons as are not actually ; and such persons as cander account of their oecupations: absolute labourers, or keepers of not prove that they be are considered as without visible means vaeattle pens, shall and shall be arrested as ofprocuring their livelihood, gabonds. labour shall commenée on Monday morn- hoArt. 183.Field shall never cease until Friday evening (legal the ing, and excepted) ; and, in extraordinary cases where to re. lidays interest of cultivator as well as proprietor until Saturday appears. evening. quire it, work shall be continued days, the ordinary field labour Art. 184. On working dawn, to continue until mid-day; shall commence at day hour for breakfast, which shall with the interval ofhalf where an the work is carrying on; after be taken on the field spot labour shall commence at two o'clock, mid-day and continue the until sun set. shall be emplored on light Art. 185. Pregnant after the females fourth month of pregnaney, they work only, and, to do any work in the field. shall not be obliged months after delivery, they shall be not obliged turn 186. Four their labour in the field, but they shall shall conto resume to work until one hour aftersun-rises they two o'clock out antil eleven o'clock, and from tinue until one to work hour before sun set. dwelling on a property in the Art. 187. No cultivator, himself from the labour assigned him, of country, shall absent of the overseer, in the absence without the permission and no one shall give that perthe proprietor unless or the farmer. case be urgent. insult on the part mission Art. 189. Every act of disobedience do work or to which he is of a workman, commanded to by imprisoument, any according subjected, shall be punished the decision of the Justo the exigency of the case, upon tice of the Peace of the district. the Art. 187. No cultivator, himself from the labour assigned him, of country, shall absent of the overseer, in the absence without the permission and no one shall give that perthe proprietor unless or the farmer. case be urgent. insult on the part mission Art. 189. Every act of disobedience do work or to which he is of a workman, commanded to by imprisoument, any according subjected, shall be punished the decision of the Justo the exigency of the case, upon tice of the Peace of the district. --- Page 10 --- 8244p Art. 1s0. Saturdays, Sundays, and Holidays, being at the entire disposal of the labourers, they shall not be permiited, on warking days, toleave their work, to indulgein daucing or feast ing, neither by night nor by day. Delinquents shall be subject to imprisonment for three daye, for the first offence; for six riays, for the repetition of the offence. The remaining articles of the Code to 191, are touching the mnaking Roarls, and keeping them 272 repair. Art. 191. From the Roll of seitlements and habitations, orderedbyarticle 182, the number of labourers, necessary forany particular work on the roads, shall be taken, in proportion to the population ofthat district, able to work, and every one in towns shall assist in the work. Art. 196. Every labourer, ordered to work on the Roads, whe shall absent himselffrom that work, shall pay a fiue of six dollars a-week, or suffer imprisonment for one week, which fine or imprisonuent shall uot exempt him from. working the week following. Art. 201. No person, for private considerations, shall abstract from the public works, those sent to labour therein, undera fine of50 dollars, for every labourerthus abstracted ifit be but for'one day. Every morniug the overseer of the work of the day, shall. call over a list of the labourers, to asceriain their presence. Art. 202. Labourers, On the public works, shall present themselves early on Monday morning, and shall not absent themselves. waless the work be finished, until Friday evening. Given in the Chamber of the Commons, at Port au Prince,. the 21st April, 1826.-23d year of Independence. MUZAINE, President. Passed the Senate, the 4th of May, 1826. P. ROUANEZ, President. Bigned, the 6th May, 1826. BOYER. By Order, B. INGINAC. These Clauses are given as more particularly exhibiting the effect of the Code on the feld labourer. To exhibitthe whole sy8tem by which the Driver is made answerable forthe labourer, the Overseer for his drivers and labourers, and the Police in its various grades for the whole ; it weuld be necessary to translate the entire Code, N. B. During imprisonment, the labourer being absent from Seld work, forfeits his wages : the pregnant women also appear te rescive no wages during their exemption. --- Page 11 --- #SESUNENI AOUAUTALANELE 04 --- Page 12 --- --- Page 13 --- G:SSRS DMI --- Page 14 ---