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1777-11-25

DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, concerning Emancipations, and the designation of Free given to the Children of people of color

Haitian

LOUIS, etc. Between the sieur Soubira, residing at Dondon, appellant, plaintiff and defendant, by his petition served on 11 October last, and also by the conclusions taken at the Bar, tending to have it please our said Court to set at nothing the appeal and the sentence appealed from; amending, seen what resulted from the baptismal extract of the mulâtresse named Adélaïde, together with the letter written to him by the sieur Fleury on 15 December 1776, to condemn the said sieur Fleury to hand over to him, and by bodily constraint, the négresse Zabeth and her child, a mulâtresse, named Adélaïde, within the day of the service of the Decree to be issued; failing which, and without need of any other judgment, to condemn likewise, and by bodily constraint, the sieur Fleury, from that moment, to the payment of the sum of 10,000 livres, for the value of the said négresse and of her child, a mulâtresse.

See the Decree of the Conseil d’Etat, of the 4 January 1779.

Source  ·  p. act 05:727 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 05:727