DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, containing a stay and a request for letters of pardon, for a murder

HAVING SEEN by the Conseil the criminal trial conducted and prosecuted by extraordinary procedure by the Lieutenant Criminel of Fort Dauphin, at the request of the Substitut of the Procureur Général du Roi at the said Seat, Plaintiff and Accuser, against the man named Bonbon, an enslaved nègre belonging to Dame Moineau, settler in the quarter of Dauphin, prisoner in the prisons of this City of the Cap, Appellant from the Sentence by which the said nègre Bonbon was declared duly attained and convicted of having killed the man named Jacques, an enslaved nègre of M. Merey, for which he was sentenced to be hanged and strangled until death ensues, &c.; the conclusions of the Procureur Général du Roi; the said nègre Bonbon having been heard and questioned in the dock on his grounds of appeal and the charges laid against him, and having heard the report of M. Duperrier, Conseiller, and everything considered. The CONSEIL has stayed Judgment in the trial; accordingly, orders that the documents and proceedings shall be handed over to the Procureur Général, to be sent by him to MM.