48              PRESENT   STATE   OF   HAYTI,      [CHAP. II.
ments, and the system of mutual connexion (rap.'
ports commerciaux, et autres rapports communs),
and the decrees which the national assembly shall
make in all such cases, shall not be enforced in the
colony, until the general assembly shall have con-
sented thereto.
" Seventhly. In cases of pressing necessity, the
importation of articles for the support of the inha-
bitants shall not be considered as any breach of the
system of commercial regulations between St. Do-
mingo and France ; provided that the decrees to be
made in such cases by the general assembly shall be
submitted to the revision of the governor-general,
under the same conditions and modifications as are
prescribed in articles three and five.
" Eighthly. Provided also, that every legislative
act of the general assembly executed provisionally,
in cases of urgent necessity, shall be transmitted
forthwith for the royal sanction. And if the king
shall refuse his consent to any such act, its execu-
tion shall be suspended as soon as the king's refusal
shall be legally notified to the general assembly.
" Ninthly. A new general assembly shall be
chosen every two years, and none of the members
who have served in the former assembly shall be
eligible in the new one.
" Tenthly. The general assembly decree that the
preceding articles, as forming part of the constitu-
tion of the French colony in St. Domingo, shall be