DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, concerning insolent Mulâtresses, and the escape of one of them from the Prisons

SEEN BY THE COURT, the proceedings extraordinarily conducted and instructed by the Juge-Criminel of Cap, at the request of the Substitut of the Procureur-Général, plaintiff and accuser, against the person named Cassaignard, Jailer of the Prisons; Fauvel, called Cadet; the nègre Baptiste, enslaved by Guillaume Lefevre; the nègre Jean-Baptiste, enslaved by Sieur Troyon, defendants, accused, held in the Royal Prisons of this city; and the woman named Marie-Anne, of Port-au-Prince, free mulâtresse, escaped from the Prisons, accused, in contumacy; and against the women named Françoise and Marthe, also mulâtresses and in contumacy: the said Substitut, appealing from the Sentence of the said Siège, of the fifteenth of March last, which had declared the woman named Françoise, emancipated mulâtresse of Sieur Dassans, duly convicted and found guilty of having, on 3 December last, in the Rue Espagnole, insulted the woman Castillon, wife of Herpin, Corporal of Artillery, by shouting Houra at her.