DECREE of the Conseil d’Etat, concerning the remainder of the Delivery of nègres to be made by the Compagnie Royale du Sénégal and Côtes d’Affrique, to the Shipowners of Saint-Domingue in the Expedition of Carthagene

Seen by the King, being in his Conseil, the Petition presented to His Majesty by the Shipowners of the Island of Saint-Domingue, who took part in the Expedition of Carthagene, stating, among other things, that the sieur Galiffet, Lieutenant de Roi in the said Island of Saint-Domingue, having contracted with the sieurs Directors and Shareholders in the Compagnie Royale du Sénégal d’Affrique, on 21 January 1698, on behalf of the said Shipowners, for the quantity of one thousand nègres from the said Coasts of Africa, reckoned in pièces d’Inde, according to the usage of the Islands of America, at the rate of 250 liv. the pièce d’Inde, and for which quantity the sum of 250,000 liv. was paid to the said sieurs Directors, various deliveries of nègres were indeed made in the said Island of Saint-Domingue, but not enough to fill the said quantity, etc.