DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, concerning the payment of executed nègres, and the costs of their proceedings; and which charges the Churchwardens with the collection of the execution duties

SEEN by the Conseil, the Requisition and Remonstrance presented in it today, by the Procureur-Général du Roi; THE CONSEIL, after deliberating on the five articles mentioned in the said Remonstrance, has ordered and does order, as to the first and second articles: 1. that the nègres who shall hereafter be executed shall be paid to those who claimed to own them at the rate at which the said nègres will be worth aboard the ships of the trade in nègres, at the time of the Decree rendered for their execution, by the Receveur of the monies for the executed, with the exception of defective ones, and those lacking an arm or a leg, etc., the price of which shall then be set by the Conseil; and 2. that, out of the said sum for the price of the said executed nègres, there shall be withheld, by the said Receveur, all the costs incurred to bring about their execution; the said Conseil orders furthermore that the fourth article of the said Remonstrance shall be carried out according to its form and tenor.