DECREE of the Conseil d’Etat, concerning the return of Black people, mulâtres, or other people of color to the Colonies

THE KING being informed that several Settlers of his Colonies who have brought with them Black domestics, mulâtres, or other people of color, and who have complied with article IX of the Declaration of last August, propose to send the said domestics back to their plantations; but that various circumstances having prevented them from taking advantage of the period of one month set by the said Declaration, they fear that the provision of the said article will be set against them, by which Black domestics, mulâtres, or other people of color, for whom no declaration has been made, may be kept in the service of their enslavers only with their own consent.

And at the one of Port-au-Prince, on the …