DECREE of the Conseil de Léogane, concerning the nègres marrons for want of provisions at their enslavers’, and those already repeat offenders

THE CONSEIL enjoins the Juge of Saint-Louis to attach henceforth to the proceedings that are brought against the nègres marrons who relapse, the Sentence that condemns them to have their ears cut off, and to be branded with a Fleur-de-Lys for the first time; it also orders him, when enslaved nègres accused of marronage declare that they were forced into it by the lack of provisions on the plantations of their enslavers, to proceed to verify the fact by hearing the two nearest neighbors, which shall be attached to the Case; and the present Decree shall be registered in the Greffes of the Sièges of the jurisdiction, to be carried out according to its form and tenor, &c.