DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, which orders the deposit, at the Greffes of the Seats, of the orders for Hunts for marrons

SEEN by the Conseil the Petition of the sieur Texier, etc. . . And ruling on the further submissions of the Procureur-Général of the King, orders that the orders for Hunts for marrons shall in future be deposited in the Greffes of the Jurisdictions within whose area the said Hunts are carried out, and this before or after the said Hunts, to be valid and serve as the law requires, and as title for those who claimed to own the nègres who might be killed in the said Hunts; and the present Decree shall be read and published, in open session, in the Seats within the jurisdiction of the Court, etc.