DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, which appoints an Executioner for the same City

IN CONSEQUENCE of the Resolution of the Court of the 14th of the present month, which had charged M. de Saint-Martin the son, Conseiller-Rapporteur of the Criminal Trial against the man named Cadet, nègre, etc. to hand over to the Lieutenant-Général of the Amirauté of this city the power to suspend the execution of the said nègre Cadet, sentenced to be hanged by Decree of the 14th of this month (for having stolen with breaking in a bundle of gold and silver on board a Schooner), in case the nègre should accept the post of Executioner of High Justice; Seen the Official Report of the Lieutenant-Général of the Amirauté of the same day, the 14th, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, recording the acceptance by the said nègre Cadet; the Gens du Roi summoned, heard and withdrawn, having heard the said Cadet on his knees, bareheaded, at the feet of the Court, and after he has taken the oath, THE COURT grants the said Cadet an act of the oath he has just taken at its feet, to fulfill well and faithfully the functions of Executioner of High Justice.