DECREE of the Conseil du Cap against a nègre who had struck a White man

HAVING SEEN by the Court the procedure conducted and instructed by extraordinary procedure by the Criminal Juge at the Royal Siége of this Town, at the request of the Substitut of the Procureur-Général du Roi at the said Siége, Plaintiff and Accuser against the man named Saint-Éloy, of the Ibo nation, enslaved nègre of Sieur Dumas Machoquet, at the Cap, held in the Royal Prisons of this Town, Defendant and Accused; the said Saint-Éloy, Appellant, as well as the said Substitut, from a Sentence rendered at the said Siége, which, having seen what results from the charges and investigations, had declared the man named Saint-Éloy duly attainted and convicted of having slapped Rivoux Machoquet, Associate of Sieur Jean Dumas, and of having wounded him in the arm with a knife blow; in reparation of which, had ordered the said Saint-Éloy to be hanged and strangled until death follows, by the Executioner of High Justice, at a Gallows to be erected for that purpose in the Place du Petit-Carenage, opposite the King’s Bakery; Having seen also, etc.: Conclusions, etc.