DECREES of the Conseil du Cap, concerning the sentencing of a sick nègre in the prisons of the Jurisdiction of Trou, and forbidding enslavers to allow their enslaved people to be armed

UPON what was represented by the Procureur-Général du Roi, that he had received word that on the 20th of last month the nègres of the sieur Lagrange came to the nègre huts of the plantation of the sieur le Cœur, in the quarter of Bayaha, armed with heavy sticks; that the dame le Cœur, his wife, having heard the noise, came to try to calm it; but that the one named Colas, an enslaved nègre of the sieur Lagrange, who was the leader of this mob, raised his stick to strike the said Dame le Cœur, and would have done so had a white man who was passing not prevented him by a pistol shot that he fired into his body; and as the said nègre is in danger of dying before his trial can be prepared and before he can undergo the penalty his crime deserves, which would have dangerous consequences, because the nègres who know of it, and who may even be his accomplices, could imagine that no punishment need be feared in such a case; that moreover the facts of which he is accused are common knowledge throughout the quarter and need no more authentic proof, being even set out in the Letter that M.