DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, which, 1°., sentences the nègre Cézar to be hanged, for the crime of Plagiaire or Theft of the Enslaved; 2°

HAVING SEEN by the Court the Proceedings conducted by extraordinary procedure and instructed by the Lieutenant Criminel at the Siége-Royal of the Cap, at the Request of the Substitut of the Procureur-Général du Roi at the said Siége, Plaintiff and Accuser; against the man named Cézar, Creole nègre, enslaved by Father Irenée, Capuchin, serving the Cure of Fort-Dauphin, Defendant and Accused, held in the Royal Prisons of this Town; the Appeals lodged, both by the said Cézar and by the Substitut of the Procureur-Général du Roi at the said Siége, from the Sentence of the [?] September last, which had declared the said nègre Cézar duly attained and convicted of having suborned, drawn away and carried off several nègres and négresses, enslaved people, of the Quartier of Gonaïves, of having hired out some of them to Private persons as things belonging to him, and strongly suspected of having wished to sell some; in reparation of which, had sentenced him, etc..