DECREE of the Conseil of Léogane, ordering that enslaved people who have taken refuge in the Spanish Lands be brought back by a person appointed by the Gouverneur

The Procureur-Général came into the Conseil and stated and submitted that the number of enslaved people who have become marrons over several years, and particularly during the War, is excessive. In their lawlessness they escaped in bands and gave themselves up to the foreigners with whom we were at war, so that many settlers have had the misfortune of seeing themselves deprived of the cultivation of their lands and reduced to relying on the help of their friends to keep their families alive. It is certain that in none of the districts did the Enemy carry off as many as those who surrendered voluntarily. Although the greater number no longer exist, through the return of some and the departure of others from the island, he nevertheless knows, from the hope and the report given to him recently, that a rather considerable number remain scattered in the island, and that those who claimed to own them would receive great relief if they were returned to them.

See the Ordonnance of the King of December 24, 1710.