Haiti, Bureau du conseiller financier receveur general/Annual report of the Financial Adviser-General Receiver for the fiscal year ...: Wash., GPO,
1925- (Notes: Imprint varies: 1923/1924- , Washington, G.P.O. ; 1932/1933-, Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Impri-merie de l’état. (Subjects: Haiti, finances,
customs administration, and commerce. The Trea-ty of September 16, 1915, following the U.S. invasion and occupation of Haiti provided for strict U.S.
supervision of Haitian national finances, in particular its customs, by appointees of the U.S. Government. The first of these officials was known as
“The Receiver General of Customs.” His reports, Haiti: Bureau du receveur general des douanes/Report of the … fiscal period, Haitian customs
receivership, were issued monthly from 1915 thru 1923. They were submitted to the U.S. Secretary of State through the American High Commissioner, and also to
relevant Haitian officials. In 1923 the name of the oversight authority changed to “Financial Adviser-General Receiver,” and its reports were made
annual, being issued under the present title. They were submitted to the Secretary of State for Finance and Commerce of the Republic of Haiti, and also to
the Secretary of State of the United States of America through the American High Commissioner. The occupants of the office of the Financial
Adviser/General Receiver during its period of existence were Mr. W.W. Cumberland, 1923-27, Mr. A.C. Millspaugh, 1927-28, and Mr. S. De La Rue, 1928-33. {As to
the latter, see also his: A review of the finances of the republic of Haiti, 1924-1930, also offered on this site.} At the end of the formal U.S
occupation U.S. fiscal oversight was modified, although not removed, by the terms of Article VIII of an Agreement of August 7, 1933, with the U.S. appointee
being restyled “Fiscal Representative.” Mr. S. De La Rue continued his former duties as the occupant of the new office during the entire its period
of existence. His formal mission was to assist the Haitian Government in building up its capacity to conduct its financial affairs on an autono-mous
basis, but he also retained his role as a watchdog for American financial interests, both governmental and private. His reports were issued under the
title Annual report of the Fiscal Representative for the fiscal year …., available elsewhere on this site. They were submitted to the American Secretary
of State and to the Haitian Secretary of State for Finance and the Secretary of State for Commerce. The reporting functions of the present series
were continued by those of a somewhat more independent body, the National Bank of Haiti, in an annual report series entitled Banque nationale de la
République d’Haïti. Département fiscal. Annual report of the Fiscal Department for the fiscal year ..., which is also offered on this site. The texts of
the reports offered here are all in English.)
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