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1785-02-26

DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, on the demand for payment for a non-marron nègre, killed by a Cavalier of the Maréchaussée

Haitian

Seen by the Court the Petition of the Sieur de Buor, Chevalier de Saint-Louis, Captain of His Majesty’s Vessels, Settler at Trou, asking, given the Sentence carrying condemnation to death, in absentia, against the man named Boussens, Cavalier of the Maréchaussée, for having killed with a pistol shot the man named François, nègre, enslaved person of the Petitioner and commandeur of his Plantation (who was crossing the main road to carry the orders of his enslaver to the small Square, and had not stopped at the voice of the said Boussens), that it be ordered that the Receveur of the municipal duties pay him the sum of 1200 livres (the price of executed nègres): THE COURT has denied and does deny the Petitioner his demand, subject to his pursuing the man named Boussens.

Source  ·  p. act 06:592 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 6) (1784-1790), p. act 06:592