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1743-05-12

DECREE of the Conseil de Léogane, which sends back to apply to the ordinary Juge for the payment of a Note signed payable in one year, for nègres bought from a Cargo

Haitian

BETWEEN the sieur Bechade, Merchant in this Town, pursuing the recoveries of the cargo of the Ship the Jason, Captain Tessier, Appellant from a Sentence of the Lieutenant-Général of the Amirauté of the same Town (in that it did not pronounce the imprisonment requested), on the one part; and the sieur Segretier, Respondent, and Appellant as from an incompetent Juge of the said Sentence, on the other part. Having seen the Sentence appealed from, &c. (which sentences the sieur Segretier to pay to the said sieur Bechade, in his capacity, the amount of the Note of 4800 livres signed the 4th of March 1741, and payable in one year from the day of its date, value in four nègres of the cargo of the said Ship the Jason): THE CONSEIL has set and sets the appeals and that which is appealed from at nothing; amending, sends the Parties back before the Royal Juge; Bechade, in his capacity, sentenced to the costs, &c.

Source  ·  p. act 03:719 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 3) (1784-1790), p. act 03:719