DECREE of the Conseil of Port-au-Prince, which declares null Clauses inserted in a Deed of gift relating to the emancipation of 27 enslaved people and to the use of a sum of 75,000 livres

LOUIS, etc. Having seen, etc. Between the sieur François Sire, etc.; And the dame Metiser, etc.; the production made at the Greffe of our Conseil by Faure, Lawyer of the sieur Sire, on 22 January 1778, consisting among other things of a Deed before Baron, Notaire, dated 25 January 1769, containing a gift by Marie Thérèse Metiser, widow Gormand, in favor of the sieur François Sire, and of the sieur François-Louis Toussaint, his son, aged about two years, born of his marriage with the late Marie-Jeanne Metiser, of the ownership and enjoyment of the plantation of the widow Morgand, situated at the Cul-de-Sac, containing about two hundred carreaux of land, together with all the enslaved people whom the sieur Sire will usefully employ for the establishment of the said plantation, among whom shall not be included those named Marie, Jasmin, Marthe, etc., to the number of seventeen head, whom the said dame reserves, intending to give them freedom; and for that purpose she gives power to the sieur Sire, the father, to obtain for them, for her and in her name, their freedom from MM.