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1780-06-16

DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, which renews the prohibitions against leaving Drugs and Medicines in the hands of nègres

Haitian

SEEN by the Court, the proceedings extraordinarily conducted and instructed…. against the person named Jean, enslaved nègre of Sieur Laboubée, the person named Zéphire, enslaved nègre of Sieur Dallest, Apothecary in this City, and Sieur Labie, Surgeon….. at the request of the Substitut of the Procureur-Général, and the said Substitut appealing, etc. THE COURT has set and sets the appeal and the Sentence appealed from to nothing, in that by it the nègre Jean had been put out of Court, and Labie dismissed from the accusation; reversing as to this, for the cases resulting from the trial, sentences the said nègre Jean to be whipped and branded with a fleur-de-lys, between the two Wickets, by the Executioner of High Justice, then returned to the Royal Prisons of this city, to remain there in perpetuity.

Source  ·  p. act 06:32 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 6) (1784-1790), p. act 06:32