DECREE of the Conseil Supérieur of Petit-Goave, on Sales by the Enslaved

ON the Remonstrance made by the Procureur-Général du Roi, that he had received word that, despite the Ordinance of 1685, Articles XVIII and XIX, the enslaved sell, both publicly and privately, Sugar Canes, Provisions, Fruits, Vegetables, firewood, Grass for the Livestock, Cassavas, Sweet Potatoes, Yams, Poultry, even Oxen and Pigs, which causes considerable harm, etc., THE CONSEIL granted the Procureur-Général du Roi Record of his Remonstrance. Accordingly, it ordered that Articles XVIII and XIX of the Ordinance of 1685 shall be executed. It forbids them to sell Sugar Canes, even with permission, on pain of confiscation of the Canes and a fine of fifty livres for the Buyers the first time. By the present Decree the Conseil has named Guards in each Quarter for the execution of the above, to whom it gives power to inspect the Notes and Merchandise, to seize them, and to draw up official reports against those who buy them. It forbids anyone to trouble them in the exercise of their duties, etc.