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1741-11-21

ORDER of the Administrators to the Procureurs-Généraux, to report to them on Judgments pronouncing condemnation to the Galleys or the penalty of Death, on account of the marronage of the enslaved in the third case

Haitian

CHARLES Brunier, Marquis de Larnage, etc.

Simon-Pierre Maillart, etc.

His Majesty having, by his orders dated 14 March last, given us the power to suspend the execution of all judgments that will be rendered by the Juges in this Colony condemning to the Galleys, etc. We accordingly order the Procureurs-Généraux du Roi of the Conseils Supérieurs of the Cap and of Léogane to suspend the execution of the sentences pronounced in the case above, and to report to us on each occasion that arises, in order to receive our orders on the said commutation of penalty for which the King has authorized us.

Source  ·  p. act 03:654 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 3) (1784-1790), p. act 03:654