(GSrttoriol Introduction. 
TNSTRUCTED by tbe Government .to publish in full all its 
laws and other documents in relation to emigration, I here¬ 
with subjoin them without abridgment; although, necessarily, 
there are occasional repetitions of facts and of guarantees in 
them, made in reply to similar questions, or in reviewing the 
action that has been taken with a view of carrying out the 
grand and generous project of the Chief of the Republic and 
his enlightened counsellors, ■— that of making Hayti to the 
black race what England is and has been to the proscribed and 
persecuted classes of Europe, a safe place of refuge, not only, 
but a free and a powerful fatherland. 
I prefix a translation of the Constitution of 1846, which 
Soulouque abolished, but the Republic revived, with certain 
Modifications rendered necessary by the altered circumstances 
of the times. The Modifications, also, are appended. It will 
repay a careful study to the general reader; to the emigrant it 
will be invaluable for reference. 
The documents are arranged in the order of their dates, and 
it will be observed that the terms become more liberal as these 
advance. 
One word of explanation is rendered necessary in view of 
the editor’s appointment as the General Agent of Emigration 
in America, and the passage of the Homestead Bill in Hayti. 
No emigrants will be entitled to a free passage, or have 
