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1767-12-29

DECREE of the Conseil du Port-au-Prince, concerning Emancipations

Haitian

Having seen by the Conseil the petition of the Procureur-Général du Roi, the matter put to deliberation, THE CONSEIL has ordered and does order that the Ordinance of 15 June 1736, and Art. 27 of that of 1 Feb. 1766 concerning the Civil Government of the Leeward Islands, shall be read and published anew in the Cour, the Hearing being in session, to be executed according to their form and tenor; orders further that no enslaver may give freedom to his enslaved person, by virtue of the permission he has obtained for it from the Gouverneur-Lieutenant-Général and Intendant, without having first had the said permission published at the Siege Royal within whose jurisdiction he has his residence, during three consecutive Hearings, and without proving by the certificate of the Greffier of the said Siege that no opposition has been made there, by which means the deed of freedom may be passed at the Greffe or before a Notaire, on condition that a copy of the deed passed before a Notaire be deposited at the Greffe of the said Siege, and that in either case the deed of freedom make mention that…

Source  ·  p. act 05:123 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 05:123