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1738-10-07

DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, which forbids the Bearing of Arms to the enslaved

Haitian

HAVING SEEN by the Conseil the criminal Lawsuit conducted by extraordinary procedure, &c. and ruling on the conclusions of the Procureur-Général du Roi, forbids the enslaved nègres to carry any knife, manchette, stick, or any other arms, on the penalties set by the Ordinances; to which end the present Decree shall be read, published and posted, &c.

Source  ·  p. act 03:542 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 3) (1784-1790), p. act 03:542