DECREE of the Conseil of Petit-Goave, concerning the Duties on Executions

The Conseil has granted Record to the Procureur-Général du Roi of his Remonstrance and of the content of the said aforedated Memorandum; in consequence, and in view of the considerable reimbursements to be made for the price of nègres executed or killed in the ordered hunts, orders that, by the Receveur of public funds, there shall be made, within three months from this day, a levy on all the Settlers of the jurisdiction of this Conseil of the sum of three livres twelve sols for each head of their working nègres; enjoins the said Settlers to bring without delay, after the said three months have expired, to the said Receveur, or the Agents he shall propose for this purpose in each Quartier, the sums for which they are included in the Roll that shall be made of the said nègres, under penalty, against those who contravene it, of paying the costs of the compulsion that shall be applied to them for this purpose, at the Petition of the said Receveur or his Agents, by which means there shall be allowed to the said Receveur, in the expenditure of his accounts, only five percent for his…