IV. 
Political ;Notcs. 
TERRITORIAL DIVISIONS OE THE REPUBLIC. 
OLITIC ALLY, the Republic is divided into departments; 
L the departments into arrondissements; the arrondissements 
into communes; and these last into rural sections. 
The departments have no commanders-in-chief; but each 
arrondissement has a commander, who, up to the present time, 
has always been an officer of superior rank. They receive 
their orders from the different Secretaries of State, whom they 
represent in their respective arrondissements; they are the 
political administrators, and are intrusted with the superintend¬ 
ence of the high police. 
Each commune also is commanded by a military officer, who 
is responsible to the commander of the arrondissement of which 
the commune forms a part. 
The rural sections of the communes are commanded by officers 
of rural police, who are responsible to the commander of the 
commune. 
There are five departments, to wit, the departments of the 
South, the West, the Artibonite, the North and Northwest. 
There are twenty-one arrondissements, viz: Cayes, Tiburon, 
Grand’Anse, Nippes, Aquin, Jacmel, Leogane, Port-au-Prince, 
Mirebalais, Lascahobas, St. Mark, Gonai'ves, Marmelade, Mole, 
St. Nicholas, Port de Paix, Borgne, Cape Haytian, Limbe, 
Grande Riviere, Trou, Fort Liberte. There are fifty-five 
communes. 
