Banque nationale de la République d’Haïti. Département fiscal; Annual report of the Fiscal Department for the fiscal year ...: 1940/41-1949/50, 9 vols., plus English indexes to the French-language reports for 1950/51-1951/51, Port-au-Prince, Imp. de l’Etat, 1941-. (The Treaty of September 16, 1915, following the U.S. occupation of Haiti provided for strict U.S. supervision of Haitian national finances, in particular its customs, by appoin-tees of the U.S. Government. The annual reports of two of these officials, the U.S. Financial Adviser/General Receiver, 1923-33, and the U.S. Fiscal Representative, 1933-40, appear elsewhere on this site. After 1940, overt U.S. supervision of Haitian finances ended, and the functions of the U.S. occupation fiscal officials devolved to an ostensibly more independent body, the National Bank of Haiti. By Executive Agreement of 13 September 1941 {full text provided starting on p. 45 of the 1940/41 annual in the present series}, the Office of Fiscal Representative was abolished, and the National Bank of Haiti was reorganized. It was placed under the honorary presidency of the Haitian Minister of Finance, with a Board composed of three U.S. citizens, to be chosen by mutual agreement of the two governments, and three Haitian citizens, to be appointed by the President of Haiti. The agreement also provided for the appointment of two co-presidents of the Board, of whom one, the Haitian Minister of Finance would act as Honorary President and preside at Board meetings, while the other, one of the three U.S. citizens, would represent the Bank’s bond holders and coordinate and direct the functions and activities of the Bank’s two main divisions. The Bank’s reports until fiscal 1949/50 were issued in both English and French language versions. The English version, offered on this site, was discontinued after the 1949/50 annual; although for the next two years an English index was issued for the French edition.)
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