DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, which fines each of the enslavers 30 livres who refused to send their enslaved people to give testimony

Having seen the representation of the Procureur-Général du Roi that the sieur Froment, Husband of the dame Fournier, and the Dame la Thuillerye, refused to send their nègres at the first summons and subpoena made to them on behalf of the Juge of this place at the instance of his Substitut, The CONSEIL, ruling thereon, confirmed the Judgment of the 25th of January last, and forbade the said sieur Froment and the Dame de la Thuillerye to repeat the offense under heavier penalties, etc.