DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, concerning 1°. the nègres who, after serving their punishments, are not claimed by their enslavers; 2°. the nègres received on the public chain gang as a form of correction; and 3°

ON this day, Messieurs de Trouillet and Achard de Champroger, Conseillers Commissaires of the Court, appointed by its Decree of the 8th of this month to inspect the royal prisons of this city, made their report, etc. The Court has ordered and orders that the official report be deposited; orders that the enslaved nègres who have carried out the final judgments rendered against them, and are unclaimed, shall be employed on the chain gang at the ordinary labors; ruling on the remainder of the conclusions of the Procureur-Général du Roi, forbids the jailer in the future to receive in the said prisons any nègre sent there and put on the chain gang as a form of correction, without a note signed by his enslaver or his representative, which shall be recorded in the register, failing the signature of the enslaver or representative in the said register, and this under penalty of 120 livres for each head of nègres held without signatures or written notes recorded or mentioned in the said register.