DECREE of the Conseil du Port-au-Prince, forbidding the letting of nègres roam

LOUIS, etc. Between the person named Charles, called Fauveau, N. L. etc.; And ruling on the requisition of our Procureur-Général, forbids all persons of whatever quality and condition to let their enslaved people roam, whether in the markets, plantations, or other public places, to sell and buy produce or merchandise there, without being expressly provided with a pass from them, and this under the penalties set by the Regulations; orders the Maréchaussée to arrest all nègres who are not found carrying a pass from their enslavers; orders that the present Decree shall be printed, read, published and posted everywhere needed, and copies of it, collated, sent to all the Sénéchaussées of the Ressort, etc.