DECREE of the Conseil Souverain of Petit-Goave, forbidding the purchase of anything from the enslaved

The Procureur-Général du Roi represented to the Council that various Persons indiscriminately buy from the enslaved Indigos, Horses, Clothing and other Merchandise, without troubling themselves about where the said enslaved people may have obtained the said Indigos, Clothing and other Merchandise, who ordinarily collude with the enslaved people of the house to steal the said Indigos from the Drying sheds and the Horses from the Savannas, and moreover break into the Warehouses, and have their thefts carried from district to district, from hand to hand, by means of the said other enslaved people their friends, who then sell them to various ill-intentioned Private persons, there being moreover Persons who conceal the said stolen Indigos, give the said enslaved people some reward for their thefts, and then sell them to Merchants or exchange them for other merchandise, which does very great harm to the Public, both because the places where the said Indigos are put to dry remain open night and day, and because the Warehouses where Merchants keep their Merchandise are closed only with…