DECREE of the Conseil du Port-au-Prince, which confiscates to the profit of the King a mulâtre calling himself Free

BETWEEN the man named Paul, called Carenan, calling himself a free mulâtre, Settler, Appellant; and Marie-Jeanne Delaunay, wife of the said Carenan, both for herself and for her children; and our Procureur-Général taking up the cause of his Substitut at Petit-Goave; and again Denis de Carenan, Settler, Respondent; THE COURT, ruling on the appeal, has set and does set at nothing the appeal and the judgment appealed from; evoking the principal of the case, and ruling on it, has declared and does declare the mulâtre Paul, called Carenan, enslaved, and confiscated to our profit; declares also null and of no effect all the acts that were passed between the said mulâtre Paul and Denis de Carenan; in consequence orders that the latter shall remain in possession of the property sold by him to the said mulâtre Paul; ruling on the petitions to intervene, as touches that of the said Denis Carenan, declares him inadmissible in the said intervention; and as regards that of Marie-Jeanne Delaunay and her children, receives them as intervening Parties.