DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, concerning 1. Sentences of adjudication of nègres; 2. the election of domicile by the Adjudicataire; and 3. the serving of notices on Feast Days

Between the sieur Bonchamps, &c.

The Conseil orders that mention shall be made, in adjudications of nègres, of the hour of the adjudication, and that the Adjudicataires shall be required to elect domicile, for twenty-four hours, in the place where the said adjudication is made. It forbids the Huissiers to serve any notices on Feast Days without express permission of the Juge of the place. It orders that the present Decree be sent to the Jurisdictions within the purview of the said Conseil, to be read, published and posted there, &c. ORDINANCE of the Administrators, for forming a Landing Place at the Bourg of Torbeck.

Of 7 January 1752.

The Comte Dubois de la Motte, &c.

Jean-Baptiste Laporte Lalanne, &c.