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Intendant de la Marine, Saint-Domingue - France - Hispaniola - French

Extant from : 1659/03
Date fromDate toHolderSource
16821685/05
Michel V Bégon (Seigneur de la Picardière et de Mirbelin)French
Administrator
Service 1680-1685

real end , march 1685

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1708/10/021720/05/06
Jean Jacques Mithon (Sieur de Senneville)French
Administrator
Service 1690-1707

commission by Interim .

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1720/10/061725/12/17
François de MontholonFrench
Administrator
Service 1702-1725

for justice , police and finance

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17351737/11/09
Daniel Henry de Besset de La Chapelle (Seigneur de la Chapelle-Milon)French
Administrator
Service 1716-1737
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1757/011758
Claude Ange de LambertFrench
Administrator
Service 1722-1758
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1760/011764/03
Jean Etienne Bernard de Clugny de Nuits (Baron de Nuits sur Armançon)French
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1748-1775

He undertakes to reduce the powers of military leaders in favor of civilian administrators .
He takes over the financial administration , puts the accounts in order , reorganizes the keeping of public accounts .
December 1760: he sets up two chambers , part of agriculture and commerce in Cap Français and Port au Prince , which will be replaced in 1763 by two chambers of agriculture .
In 1761 : he orders a survey of the colony to be carried out .
He proceeded to abolish the exclusive, a measure that led to a boom in trade in the colony .
In January 1764 : he voted to lift the so-called "four million" tax for five years .

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