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1784-06-03

DECREE of the Conseil of Cap, concerning orders to hunt marrons

Haitian

SEEN by the Court the petition presented to it by the Sieur Lapice Bergondy, settler in the Dauphin District, tending to ask that it please the said Court, having seen the declaration of marronage of several nègres of the plantation held in common between his brothers and himself, made at the Greffe on May 2, 1781, by the Sieur Dupont de Hault, manager of their plantation; the deposit made at the Greffe on the…. of June 1781, of an order to hunt (the day after its date), and the declaration of the same day of the death of Zabeth, négresse of the Sieurs Lapice, killed the day before by a gunshot in an ajoupa, etc., to order that the Petitioner be paid the sum of 1,200 livres etc. Written conclusions of Saint-Martin son, Substitut of the Procureur-Général du Roi; having heard the report of M.

Source  ·  p. act 06:471 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 6) (1784-1790), p. act 06:471