DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, which denies payment to the claimants for their nègre killed in a hunt as a fugitive, although he was not one

Seen by the Conseil the Petition of the Butler heirs, seeking to be reimbursed the sum of [?],000 livres, stated in the deed of sale of the nègre

Achille; Conclusions of Canivet, Substitut of the Procureur-Général du Roi, having heard the Report of M. Ruotte, Conseiller; and everything considered: THE COURT has dismissed and dismisses the Petitioners from the claims and conclusions of their Petition. The Butler heirs had lodged a complaint against the Commandant of the detachment that had killed their nègre; but on the exhibition of the hunt order he had carried, the Juge had dismissed the charge against him. See the Letters of the Minister, of 30 June 1780, and 17 May 1782.