DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, which declares a nègre free for service rendered to the Colony, and orders a general tax to pay the price of him to his Enslaver

Having seen by the Conseil the Extract of the Letter written by M. le Comte de Choiseul, Gouverneur of the Isle la Tortue and Coast of Saint-Domingue, presented by M. de Barrere, Lieutenant de Roi and Commandant at the Cap, tending to have the nègre named Louis la Ronnerie, enslaved person of madame de Graffe, declared free; and having seen the conclusions of the Procureur-Général du Roi thereon; THE CONSEIL, after having maturely deliberated on the liberty of a nègre named Louis la Ronnerie, belonging to madame de Graffe, and having seen the service he rendered to the King and to the Colony, said Conseil declares him free from now on as reward for said service, in arresting and killing the man named Baguedy, enslaved nègre of the sieur Skeret, and the man named la Boullaye, nègre of the dame Dureau, and in having had arrested, by means of his comrades, other nègres and négresses of the company and plot of said Baguedy, attained and convicted of assassinations and public thefts, the appraisal of said nègre Louis la Ronnerie being first made by the sieurs Jean Bonnefoy, Captain of…