DECREE of the Conseil of Port-au-Prince concerning an introduction of Black people by a Danish Vessel

LOUIS, etc. Having seen by our Conseil Supérieur of Port-au-Prince the trial conducted at the Siége of the Amirauté of the Cayes, against the Shipowners of the Frigate the Geheime Raad Schack, of the Danish Company for the trade of the Baltic Sea and of Guinea, Sieurs Tapiau and de la Ville, Merchants at the Cayes, and Sieurs Stanislas Foache, Pierre Morange and Company, Merchants at the Cap, Correspondents and associates of the said Company; the Sentence rendered 24 May 1785, and appealed from, which declares null and of no effect both the Official Reports made by Pouquet, Lacombe and Cayre, on 27 April last, and notably the Official Report of seizure of the Frigate the Geheime Raad Schack, made by Lacombe and Cayre, in contempt of Article 9 of the Decree of our Conseil d’État concerning foreign trade.