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1711-05-05

DECREE of the Conseil of Petit-Goave, which fixes at six hundred livres the price of executed nègres, and orders that nègres killed in the hunts be declared

Haitian

Having seen by the Conseil the Petition presented to it, etc. THE CONSEIL, ruling on the said Petition, has ordered and orders that the said two nègres named Houx and Moussac, belonging to the widow Duquesnot, and killed, one in an ordered hunt, and the other by order of M. de Valernod, Commandant en Chef of this Colony, shall be paid to her by the Receveur of public funds, out of those of his receipts, at the rate of six hundred livres each, at which the Conseil has fixed the price of each nègre; by doing so the said Receveur shall be well and validly discharged, upon producing the receipt at the foot of the present; orders that in the future nègres who are executed or killed in the ordered hunts shall be paid for only at the price of six hundred livres each, even though the said nègres may have been of greater value.

Source  ·  p. act 01:224 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 2) (1784-1790), p. act 01:224