DECREE of the Conseil du Port-au-Prince, concerning the Judgment of an accused nègre, dead before his execution

SEEN the Petition of the Sieur Pelerin de la Buxière the son, settler at the far end of Isle à Vache, stating (that his nègre Mercure, murderer of the nègre Denis, also his enslaved person, was sentenced by Sentence of the Court of Les Cayes of 3 July to be hanged. In the night of the 26th to the 27th, this nègre strangled himself in the dungeon); wherefore he requested that 1200 livres be paid to him as the price of his said nègre. Conclusions of Maître de Ronseray, Substitut, acting as Procureur-Général du Roi, having heard the Report of M. Cottes, Conseiller, everything considered: THE COURT has rejected and does reject the said Petition.