DECREE of the Conseil d’État, which annuls one of the Conseil du Petit Goave, by which it put prices on heads

THE KING being informed that a Decree was issued by the Conseil Supérieur of Petit Goave, of the 6th of last May, at the request, pursuit and diligence of the Substitut of the Procureur-Général of His Majesty, Plaintiff and Accuser, pronouncing sentence of death, and other penalties, against several enslaved nègres and négresses, convicted of theft and murder; that this same Decree put a price on the heads of several other fugitive and defaulting nègres, and in consequence permitted any person of whatever condition, free or enslaved, to arrest them dead or alive, granting to free persons the sum of three hundred livres for each nègre alive that they bring in, and that of one hundred fifty livres for each nègre’s head, with a promise to grant freedom to the enslaved who bring in the said nègres dead or alive, considering that beyond the fact that the said Conseil Supérieur exceeded its power in putting a price on the heads of the said fugitive and defaulting nègres, and in promising freedom to the enslaved who would bring them in, great disorders could follow in the Colony on the…