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1773-04-30

DECREE of the Conseil of Port-au-Prince, concerning the sale of Horses and other Animals

Haitian

SEEN the criminal trial conducted at the Seat of Port-au-Prince, etc. OUR COURT, amending, orders that the said nègre calling himself free shall be taken to the galleys for life; and ruling on the further submissions of the Procureur Général, forbids all Persons of whatever quality and condition they may be to buy in future from unknown people and people with no one to vouch for them, and notably from people of color, any Horses or Animals, without being shown the titles of ownership granted by known People, and to accept the transfer of them by sales under ordinary marks, on pain of being prosecuted as the circumstances require; orders that the present Decree shall be printed, read, published and posted, and that collated copies of it shall be sent to the Jurisdictions of the district, etc. DECREE of the Conseil of Port-au-Prince, concerning English Gold. Of the JOAVI 1773.

Source  ·  p. act 05:428 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 5) (1784-1790), p. act 05:428