DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, which forbids taking nègres on daily hire if they do not have notes from their enslavers

BETWEEN the sieur Henriques, etc. And ruling on the further Conclusions of the Procureur-Général du Roi; orders that the Ordinances and Regulations concerning the Police of the enslaved shall be executed according to their form and tenor: Accordingly, makes very express prohibitions and prohibits all persons, of whatever quality and condition they may be, from taking enslaved people on daily hire, unless the said enslaved people carry a note from their enslavers, on pain of being sentenced to a fine in favor of the enslaver, in conformity with article 34 of the Edict of the King, of March 1724. Orders that the present Decree be printed, to the number of two hundred Copies, read, published and posted, at the diligence of the Procureur-Général du Roi, at the Crossroads and customary places of this Town, and everywhere necessary; that like copies shall be sent, at the diligence of the said Procureur-Général du Roi, to the Jurisdictions of the jurisdiction, etc.