DECREE of the Conseil du Port-au-Prince, which 1. condemns a nègre, murderer of a white man, to make amende honorable, to have both hands cut off, and to be broken alive; 2

Seen, etc.: THE COURT has condemned the man named Pierre Louis, Wigmaker, nègre, etc. And ruling on the Conclusions of the Procureur-Général, orders that the Regulatory Decrees of 20 June 1772 and 20 December 1783 shall be executed according to their form and tenor. Consequently, forbids all Proprietors, of whatever rank and condition they may be, to rent to enslaved nègres houses in whole or in part, under any pretext whatever; likewise forbids any person who holds enslaved people to permit them to engage in any trade on account of the said enslaved people, and to let them wander and roam and live as they please, in return for a payment, whether by the day or by the month, on pain, against the proprietors of houses and those who hold enslaved people, of a fine of 1,000 livres for the first time, and in addition of confiscation of the said enslaved people for the benefit of His Majesty, in case of repetition. Enjoins the Officers of justice to see with exactness to the execution of the said Regulation. And given the contravention by the Sieur G….