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1716-12-14

DECLARATION of the King concerning the Guinea Trade, ordering that three Negrillons shall be paid for only at the rate of two nègres, and two Negrittes for one nègre

Haitian

Louis, etc. GREETINGS. The late King, our most honored Lord and Great-Grandfather, having permitted, since the month of November 1713, Merchants to go, by virtue of the Passports issued to them, to trade for Black people on the Coast of Guinea and then transport them to the Islands of America, on condition of paying, for each one brought into Saint-Domingue, 30 livres, and 15 livres for those brought into the Windward Islands, in conformity with which they gave their undertakings, we judged it appropriate, in the month of January of this year, to secure by our Letters Patent the freedom of Commerce on that Coast, which the Compagnie had enjoyed exclusively until the said month of November 1713, and accordingly we permitted, etc.

Registered at the Conseil of Léogane on 3 May 1717.

And at that of the Cap on 6 June following.

Source  ·  p. act 01:446 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 2) (1784-1790), p. act 01:446