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1768-02-22

DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, which declares null a Seizure of newly arrived nègres intended for cultivation

Haitian

BETWEEN the sieur Carrere, Settler at Ouanaminte, appellant from a Sentence of the Amirauté of Fort Dauphin, of the one part. And the sieur Fourneau, charged with the collection of the cargo of the Ship la Reine d’Angole of Nantes, of the other part. After Tremolet de Mercei, Avocat of the Appellant, and Monceaux, Avocat of the respondent, were heard, and all things considered: THE COUR has set and sets at naught the appeal and the Sentence appealed from, in that by it the seizure by execution made of the newly arrived nègres intended for the market was declared good and valid; amending as to this, declares final the provisional release granted of the said nègres by Decree of the 10th of the present month, the Sentence otherwise taking effect; condemns the party of Tremolet to one quarter of the costs, and that of Monceaux to three quarters of the said costs, for all damages and interest, etc.

Source  ·  p. act 05:134 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 5) (1784-1790), p. act 05:134