DECREES of the Conseil du Cap, concerning the Duties for Executions

ON the verbal Remonstrance of the Procureur-Général, THE CONSEIL, ruling on it, orders that an apportionment shall be made on all the nègres in general, of the Jurisdiction of this Conseil, large and small, at the rate of 40 sols per head, which shall be paid to the sieur de Millot, Receveur appointed for the said Receipt, according to his Commission granted to him by M. Mithon, dated the 20th of February last. For these collections he shall have five percent for his Receipt, and the said de Millot shall be obliged to have the present Decree published in all the Parishes of his Jurisdiction, to which Parishes he shall give fifteen days’ delay for the payment of the said monies, during which fortnight the settlers shall be bound to pay the Tax on their nègres at the Office he will set up. As for the sugar makers who have no money, the Conseil permits them to make their Note to the said Receveur for what they will have to pay in Sugar, at the rate of 4 livres 10 sols the hundred, unless they prefer to make their Note in money.