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1760-05-22

DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, which authorizes the mulâtresse wife of COTTIN to practice the profession of Midwife

Haitian

HAVING SEEN by the Conseil the Petition of Marie Guerineau, wife of the sieur Cottin, stating that for more than twenty years she has practiced the profession of Midwife, to the satisfaction of those who have employed her, in the presence of the Physicians of the Faculty and of several Surgeons, who all attest her ability. She had until now practiced this profession without being troubled. But on the 20th of last November there was served on her, at the request of the widow Fourbié, the dame Lefebvre and the widow Aucomte, Midwives, the extract of a Decree of the Court of the 14th of June 1757, rendered on the conclusions of the Procureur Général, which forbids all persons to deliver any birth in the Towns or Bourgs without having first been recognized as capable of practicing the profession, having been admitted, and having taken an oath before the Court.

Source  ·  p. act 04:287 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 4) (1784-1790), p. act 04:287