DECREE of the Conseil du Port-au-Prince, for the punishment of a Cruel Treatment that had caused the Death of an enslaved woman

LOUIS, &c. Against the man named Xavier, nègre, claiming to be free, etc. Seen by our Conseil Supérieur of Port-au-Prince the Sentence of the 15th of October of the present month, appealed from; Seen also the other documents of the Trial, and the conclusions of Maître de Ronseray, Substitut, of the 29th of this month: Having heard the said Xavier in his interrogation on the sellette, etc., OUR COURT has set aside and does set aside the Appeal and that from which appeal was taken; amending, declares the said Xavier duly attained and convicted of having practiced several cruelties and rigorous and barbarous treatments toward the woman named Marthe, négresse, his enslaved woman, who died in his service. In reparation for which, sentences him to be beaten and flogged, naked, with rods, by the Executioner of High Justice, at the crossroads and customary places of this city, and at one of them to be branded with a hot iron on the right shoulder, bearing as its mark the letters GAL.