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1724-07-03

DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, which orders, by virtue of a Decree of the Conseil d’État, an inventory of the minutes of the Greffes, and that the old criminal trials of nègres, and other useless papers, shall be burned

Haitian

The Procureur-Général du Roi came into this Conseil, and said that there is a Decree of the Conseil d’État of the King, which orders that a general inventory shall be made, of the minutes of the Greffe as well as of the Notaires, for the security of families, which has not yet been carried out, and requires, etc. The Conseil, having regard to the said requisition, has ordered and does order that within four months the said inventory shall be made, in this Jurisdiction as in that of the Port de Paix, of the minutes of the Greffes of the said Courts and of those of the Notaires, by MM. the Juges and Procureurs du Roi of the said Jurisdictions; and that the old criminal trials of Black people and other useless papers shall be thrown out and burned after a statement of them has been made.

Source  ·  p. act 03:103 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 3) (1784-1790), p. act 03:103