DECREE of the Conseil du Port-au-Prince, on the price of the Enslaved who are executed

THE COURT, ruling on the remonstrance of the Procureur-Général, and having heard the report of M. Gabeure de Vernot, Conseiller, has ordered and does order that the value of the nègres executed shall remain fixed for the future, and counting from this day, at the sum of 1200 liv. instead of 600 liv., having regard to what the enslaved were then worth; Black people at the beginning of the establishment being worth 1000 liv., and since then the scarcity of nègres having raised their price to 2000 liv.; in consequence the enslavers of the said nègres shall be reimbursed for them by the Treasury of the municipal funds on the footing of the said fixing; orders that the present Decree shall be read, published, etc.