DECREE of the Conseil of Port-au-Prince, which rules that Informers may be Witnesses, subject to challenge

LOUIS, etc. in view of the criminal trial held at the court of Port-au-Prince, against the man named François, called Lacostiere, an enslaved man, etc.; and ruling on the requisition of our Procureur-Général; enjoins his Substituts to have heard as witnesses the private persons from whom they receive declarations and denunciations, subject, in judging, to the objections that will be raised by the accused against the said witnesses at the confrontation, to the Juges giving to the said depositions such regard as is reasonable; orders that the present Decree be sent to the Sénéchaussées of the Ressort to be registered there, etc.