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1784-10-28

DECREE of the Conseil du Cap against nègre Assassins

Haitian

SEEN by the Court the criminal procedure, extraordinarily made and conducted by the Lieutenant-Général of the Amirauté of the Cap, at the request of the Substitut of the Procureur-Général du Roi at the said Court, Plaintiff and Accuser, against five nègres, named l’Eveillé, Pharaon, Mercure, Luc and Azor, and a négrillon named Jean Pierre, aged fourteen years or thereabouts; all enslaved people of the sieurs Gentil-Desmaries and Lavallette, and Sailors on board the Schooner la Fortune, of the Cap, Defendants and Accused, held in the Royal Prisons of this City, Appellants from the Sentence of the said Juge of the Amirauté, dated the 20th of the current month, etc. Seen also the Documents of the Procedure set out in the said Sentence, the act of appeal brought on the twenty-first of the same month by the said Accused.

Source  ·  p. act 06:530 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 6) (1784-1790), p. act 06:530