DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, concerning nègres who were Thieves of Sugar

SEEN by the Court the criminal proceedings made, conducted and judged in the state in which they were found, without need of further investigation (1) by the Lieutenant-Criminel at the Siège Royal of Fort-Dauphin, at the Petition of the Substitut of the Procureur-Général du Roi, plaintiff and accuser; against the persons named Jean-Pierre, Yoyo, and Marie Noël, enslaved nègres of the plantation la Garenne; the man named Joseph Ossé, enslaved nègre of the sieur Biscente, Spaniard, and the persons named……. free Spanish nègres, defendants and accused; the said Jean-Pierre, Yoyo, Marie Noël, Joseph Ossé and others appealing from a Sentence of the said Siège of the……. which had declared the said Jean-Pierre and Yoyo duly attained and convicted of having taken seven or eight molds of white Sugar on the plantation of their enslavers and of having sold them to the said nègre Joseph Ossé; and the said Joseph Ossé duly attained and convicted of having been an accomplice in the said theft.