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1779-05-05

DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, which enjoins a Notaire not to pass Sales between People of color, unless they show their Titles of ownership

Haitian

RULING on the further conclusions of the Procureur-Général du Roi, enjoins J…., Notaire, to be more circumspect in future in the drawing up of deeds of sale of enslaved people and Animals, between and by People of color; accordingly, orders that the present Decree shall be served on him at the diligence of the Substitut of the Procureur-Général du Roi at the Siège Royal of Fort-Dauphin.

Source  ·  p. act 05:829 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 05:829