DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, providing that it persists in staying the registration of an Ordinance of the Administrateurs on nègres executed

The PROCUREUR GÉNÉRAL du Roi came into the Chamber of this Conseil, and represented to the Court that he had received a Letter from Messieurs the Chevalier de la Rochalard and Montholon, General and Intendant, dated at Petit Goave, the 11th of last December, by which they ask him to require the registration of the Ordinance made by M. de Sorel and the said sieur Montholon on the 17th of August also last, on the subject of nègres executed, following the Decree that was made in the form of a Regulation on the 5th of July also last, the suspension of which was ordered by the said Ordinance; and after the Court had read it and the said letter, and heard the Procureur-Général du Roi, asking and requiring registration, the Conseil having put the said matter to deliberation, it was said by a plurality of votes that registration of the said Ordinance would be stayed until the arrival of M.

M. the Comte de Champmeslin had this Ordinance registered on 4 February