DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, which forbids Executors of wills to sell the nègres of Estates unless they are authorized by the Court

BETWEEN the sieur de Meynard, Executor of the will of the late Chateau, Appellant, of the one part; and the Procureur-Général du Roi, taking up the cause of his Substitut at the court of the Cap, Respondent, of the other part. Having seen, etc. And ruling on the Requisition of the Procureur-Général, the Court forbids all Executors of wills to proceed in the future to the sale of the enslaved people of the Estates with which they are charged without having obtained the permission of the Court; it also forbids the Juges to grant the said permissions. It orders that copies of the present Decree be sent to the Jurisdictions of the district, to be read, published and posted there, etc.