DECREE of the Conseil of Cap, which, on the appeal from a Sentence that confirmed a freedom and ordered the release of the emancipated person, on condition of furnishing security for the provisional execution of the…

SEEN by the Court the petition presented to it by Philemon, mulâtre acting under the authority of Maître Petit Deschampeaux, Procureur in the seats of the Cap, Curator named for him for the defense of his freedom, the said petition tending to ask that it please the Court to permit him to bring forward the Sieur Brousse, Appellant from a Sentence of the Juge of the Cap of the… of the present month, which, the parties having been heard, together with the Procureur du Roi in his oral conclusions, having seen the deed passed before Maître Bordier, Notaire, on the… 1764, by which the Sieur Chevalier de Laborde, his former enslaver, had given him freedom, with a request to the Général and the Intendant to ratify it; the deed of ratification of the said freedom by MM. de Montreuil and de Clugny, had provisionally maintained the man named Philemon in his freedom, his damages and interest reserved for the final judgment; accordingly had ordered that the said Philemon be released from prison; to which end the Jailer is compelled.