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1706-07-05

DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, forbidding the mistreatment of the Executioner

Haitian

SEEN by the Conseil the Remonstrance of the Procureur-Général, THE CONSEIL, ruling accordingly, forbids all enslaved nègres to mistreat the said André Sénégal, Executioner of his district, under penalty of being flogged, and even of death, if the case so requires, for the first who is convicted of it. It also forbids all Settlers and other Free People to beat or touch the said Executioner, under penalty likewise of proceedings being taken against them extraordinarily and of being punished in conformity with the Ordinances of His Majesty. THE CONSEIL permits the Settlers and the nègres, whether Free or enslaved, to arrest him in case he is found leaving the district for the farthest Places in order to become a Fugitive, or to go to the Spanish, and to have him taken to the Prisons of the Cap, those who do so to be paid according to the customary rules. It orders that the present Decree be read, published, and posted in all the Parishes of this district, etc.

Source  ·  p. act 01:61 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 01:61