DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, which sentences, without further Procedure, a nègre, Leader of a Band, to the supreme penalty; the Officers of the Jurisdiction sitting in the said Conseil

M. Gérard Carbon, Counselor of the King in this Conseil, acting as Procureur-Général du Roi, entered, and said: that there was in the prisons the nègre named Colas Jambes Coupées, enslaved by the sieur Doze, so well known, for four to five years, for his acts of marronage toward the Spanish side, with seduction and abduction of other nègres; leader of a Cabal bearing Arms; highway robber, both by day and by night, in the Quarter of Bois de Lance and Morne à Mantègre, attacking even the Whites, having several secret understandings and correspondences to abolish the Colonies; abettor or accomplice implicated in the cabals of Cézar, Jupiter, Louis and Chéri, who were put to the supreme penalty; accused, furthermore, of sorcery and magic, for having, a number of times, escaped from irons and prisons, and having poisoned several nègres. And as all his crimes and his life are known to the whole Quarter, and to each of the best private persons, and as his Trial has been made and judged by various Decrees of this Conseil, whose penalty he has not undergone for want of having been taken.