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Show 178 and 'filE LIDI::IlTY DELl•· red iron-wood, cvcrlasting, and tb.° nlmondwood. lt- .I.'! would also bo highly · four 53 1)1 The worlnng o t t ado . they aro very for the cxpor r. ' advantageous . the Grand Saline d t tho principal bc!Dg abun an ' . Artibonite, ancl those of La d tho Condon at an k d Some others arc A t present umvor c . Beato, a . . s for instance, the k bl as curiostbes ; a. ' remar a e . which, at certain seasons, marshes of Port-de-Pan::, cred with salt. f aro cov d"fli also from that o Our monetary system I ers a r . nsisting exclusively of P pc other count!lCS, co . of a standard G ld and silver money money. 0 r clo of brokerage. . "tl us only an ar 1 currency IS Wl l enccmcnt of our 1807, the comm Down even to . ld and silver circulated · d · ssenstons, go inteshnc 1 That was tho result abundantly in the country. . Jlut the • f the old reg•me. of the forced labor o l aving gradually of the country 1 territorial resources f tbc labor of n. large . d th. n•h the loss o • . climimsbe ' ro o - ld' rs its metallic portion of t \1 0 nec·o plc become so 10 , CO:'oDif.:HCE OF IIA\"'1'1. 179 wealth diminished also, to tlwt extent that the government, with a view to arrest tho going away nf the little silver which yet remained, caused little }Jicccs to be cut out from the gourdes, leaving them worth a hundred centimes, [about twenty coots,] and the valnc of the piece extracted was reckoned at eighteen centimes. About sixty thousand piastres underwent this operation. In less than a year, all the pierced gourdes, and c'\'"cn the little pieces which were cut out, lmd disappeared from circulntion by exportation abroad. Then, to meet their urgent wants, they issued money of lead, pewter, or copper, called Hayti money, and which the soldiers themselves coined publicly on the ramparts, in sight of the enemy, and in spite of the efforts of the authorities. To get rid of this inconvenience, a new money was decreed - the "rpent money - two-thirds alloy, to tho amount of one million one hundred thousand gourdes, which lasted until 1817. From that time dates the effigy money of five~twelftbs intrineic value, |
