DECREE of the Conseil de Léogane, concerning Enslaved People killed while in marronage, other than during the ordered hunts

Having seen by the Conseil the Regulation of Duvaumartin, Captain of Militia of the Cul-de-Sac, setting forth that one of his nègres, named Dastion, having been killed during his marronage by one of the nègres of the man named Digneron, settler at the grande plaine, he applied before the Juge of Léogane, who ordered the reimbursement of the nègre out of public funds according to the Regulation of the Conseil, requesting, etc. THE CONSEIL has set aside the Sentence and, amending it, dismisses the said Duvaumartin from his claim.