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1779-01-04

DECREE of the Conseil d’Etat, which quashes the one rendered by the Conseil du Cap, on November 25, 1777, concerning a freedom granted by the Gouverneur of the Spanish Part of Saint-Domingue

Haitian

THE KING being in his Council, has quashed and annulled, does quash and annul, so far as concerns the sieur Soubira only, the said Decree of the Conseil Supérieur du Cap of November 25, 1777, together with the Sentence of the Siège Royal of the said Town of the preceding May 23; calling up the principal matter and ruling on it, has declared null and of no effect the emancipation of the négresse Zabeth and her daughter; orders that the said enslaved people shall be returned to the said sieur Soubira, their enslaver; His Majesty permits the said sieur Soubira to seize the said enslaved people and to arrest them wherever he can find them; orders further that the sums he may have been compelled to pay by virtue of the said Decree shall be returned and restored to him; which shall be executed notwithstanding any opposition or impediment whatever, and should any arise, His Majesty reserves cognizance of it to himself and his Council. His Majesty commands and orders his Gouverneur-Lieutenant-Général and Intendant of the Islands to Leeward to see to the execution of the present Decree.

Source  ·  p. act 05:797 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 5) (1784-1790), p. act 05:797