DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, ordering that an enslaver shall receive 1000 livres from the Fund of the Executed, for the price of his négresse emancipated by the Government, for having denounced Murderers

Having seen in the Conseil the Ordinance of MM. de Conflans and Maillart, given at Léogane on the o of May last, signed by Vaudreuil, because of the illness of the Chevalier de Conflans and of Maillart, by which, at the request of the said Conseil, the freedom of the woman named Louison, négresse belonging to the sieur Bernard Grandjean, Merchant at the Cap, was granted as a reward for the denunciation she made of the nègres who committed the murder of, and took part in the murder of, the Passengers of the Schooner of Jacquezy, on condition of paying the said sieur Grandjean 100 pistoles, with which he was content, from the funds of the public treasury, and as is set out at greater length by the said Ordinance: having heard the Procureur Général du Roi, and all things considered, the CONSEIL has ordered and does order that the Receveur of the Duties on executed nègres shall pay the said sieur Grandjean the sum of 1000 livres for the price of the said négresse Louison, with which he was content, emancipated by the said Ordinance.