1782-01-24

DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, which rules that a Militia Officer holding a Hunting Order may not use it unless accompanied by a detachment, without being personally answerable for the consequences of the Hunt

Name: DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, which rules that a Militia Officer holding a Hunting Order may not use it unless accompanied by a detachment, without being personally answerable for the consequences of the Hunt
Start: 1782-01-24

Haitian

LOUIS, etc. Between MM. and Mesdemoiselles de Brucourt, brothers and sisters, settlers at Grand Bassin, on one side: And the sieur Gaillardet, jeune, Militia Officer, settler at Grande Coline, and the sieur Joubert, cadet, settler in the same district, Respondents, on the other side. Having seen by our said Court the Sentence appealed from, dated the said day of July 12 last, which, the claims having been joined, took note for the said sieurs and demoiselles de Brucourt, on their request, to serve and avail them as reason requires, of the declaration made by the sieurs Gaillardet cadet and Joubert that on May 6 last, when the latter fired on the two nègres in question, one of whom was killed and the other wounded, they were without a detachment.

See a Letter of the Minister, of June 2, 1786.

Source · p. act 06:175 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 6) (1784-1790), p. act 06:175