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1707-07-04

DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, concerning the Duties on the Executed

Haitian

Having seen by the Conseil the Remonstrance above, the Conseil orders that a levy of 12000 liv. shall be made throughout the extent of the Jurisdiction of this Conseil, which shall remain in the hands of a solvent Settler, whomever it pleases MM. Charite, Commandant en Chef, and Deslandes, Commissaire Ordonnateur, to choose in the Jurisdiction, so that he may pay with it all said appointed Men, executed nègres and other costs as may be due, on the Orders of said sieur Commissaire Ordonnateur; that it shall be paid to the sieur Longray, appointed for said Collection, which he shall be required to make or have made throughout the extent of this Conseil, to whom each Settler shall give a signed enumeration of all the nègres from said age of fourteen years to that of sixty; and failing that, said Longrais shall attest to it at the foot, and shall have it countersigned without delay by said sieur Commissaire Ordonnateur.

DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, which commissions a Huissier to perform the Functions of the Greffier of the Court in a Case where the latter is a Party.

5 July 1707.

Source  ·  p. act 01:90 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 2) (1784-1790), p. act 01:90