DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, which sentences a nègre to wear on his feet, all his life, at his enslaver’s house, a chain weighing 15 livres

HAVING SEEN by the Conseil the criminal trial conducted by extraordinary procedure at the request of the Substitut of the Procureur-Général du Roi, against the nègre Guillaume Bily, enslaved by the Minors of Morinville, Settlers in the Quarter of Morin, accused and held prisoner in the prisons of this City, and all the documents resulting from the said trial: and having heard thereon the report of M. de Beauval Barbé, Conseiller and Commissaire in this matter, and the verbal conclusions of the Procureur-Général du Roi; all having been seen and maturely considered, THE CONSEIL has overturned and annulled the Sentence appealed from, has discharged the said nègre Bily, the accused, as acquitted, and orders that he be returned to his enslaver; and to prevent the disorders the said nègre might cause in the future, the Conseil orders that a chain weighing 15 livres be put on his feet, which he shall keep and wear for the rest of his days, on pain of death; and enjoins the Fermier to have it put on him without delay at the expense of the Ferme, under penalty of a fine of 100 livres, etc.