DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, which grants pardon to the Executioner of Fort-Dauphin, who had escaped from the Prisons

SEEN by the Court the proceedings made by extraordinary procedure and conducted by the Lieutenant-Criminel of Fort-Dauphin, at the Petition of the Substitut of the Procureur-Général du Roi at the said Siège, plaintiff and accuser; against the man named Alexandre, nègre, Executioner of High Justice, defendant and accused; the said Alexandre appealing from a Sentence that had declared him duly attained and convicted of having escaped from the prisons, and of having taken refuge with the Spanish; and seen the Decree of the Court of 10 March 1779, issued upon the requisition of the Procureur-Général du Roi, which had stayed the execution of another Decree of the same day, imposing the penalty of death against him for murder, and had commissioned him to the employment of Executioner of High Justice at this Siège, on condition that he never leave the prisons, on penalty of undergoing his Judgment.

The motive of this Decree was notably art. 2 of the Definitive Treaty of Police between the Courts of France and Spain, of 3 June 1777