DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, forbidding all grease merchants, etc. to buy any movable Effects from nègres, people of color and unknown private Persons

Having seen by the Court the proceedings extraordinarily conducted by the Lieutenant Criminel of the Cap, etc.; and ruling on the fuller conclusions of the Procureur-Général du Roi, and repeating the prohibitions made both by the Ordinances of His Majesty and by the Regulations registered in the Court, makes very express inhibitions and prohibitions to all grease dealers and to all Retailers, Merchants, Small sellers and others, against buying from nègres, people of color, and any other unknown private persons, any movable effects, and notably glassware, bottles, linens, clothing or garments and furniture of any kind, and this on pain of being prosecuted extraordinarily and punished according to the rigor of the Ordinances; orders that the present Decree shall be printed, published and posted in the customary places and crossroads; orders further that, at the instance of the Procureur-Général du Roi, it shall be served on the man named Joseph-Marie Tiraut, formerly a grease dealer in this Town, with an injunction to conform to it, under the penalties of law, etc.