DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, containing a modification of articles 13 and 29 of that of 6 August 1739, on the Maréchaussée

ON what was remonstrated by the Procureur-Général du Roi, &c. the matter put to deliberation: THE CONSEIL, having seen articles 23 and 29 of the said Regulation of the Maréchaussée, and adding to them, orders that the enslaved person who is found a marron only, or by chance encounter at night without a pass or mark from his enslaver, outside his plantation, being known and not accused of crime, shall be taken and handed over to his enslaver, if he is nearer his dwelling than the prison, the enslaver paying the capture fee that will be due; and as for article 29 of the same Regulation, orders that the capture fee for enslaved people found marrons in the Towns, or by chance encounter, without the consent of their enslaver, shall be set in conformity with arts. 21, 22 and 23 of the said Regulation; orders that a copy of the present Decree shall be sent to the Jurisdictions within the jurisdiction of the Court, to be registered, read, published and posted where needed, &c.