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1778-01-09

DECREE of the Conseil du Port-au-Prince, concerning Acts that concern people of color calling themselves free

Haitian

BETWEEN the woman named Michelle-Louise Scaramouche, widow of Lécron, free nègre, etc. And ruling on the requisition of the Procureur-Général, orders that the Regulations of the Colony shall be executed according to their form and tenor; accordingly, renewing the Regulatory Decree of 25 April 1777, forbids all Curés, Vicaires or Desservans of Parishes to publish any banns, to celebrate any marriages between nègres or people of color who claim to be free, and likewise to baptize as free any nègre child or child of color, unless there has been shown to the said Curés, Vicaires or Desservans both the acts of freedom of the mothers of the said children and the Ordinance of ratification of the said freedoms by the Administrators of the Colony, or, as regards the publication of banns and celebrations of marriage, unless it has been shown to them that the said nègres or people of color are free by the presentation either of their baptismal act, or of their act of emancipation duly ratified.

Source  ·  p. act 05:732 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 5) (1784-1790), p. act 05:732