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1671-02-07

ORDINANCE of M. DE BAAS, Gouverneur-Général of the Islands, concerning the establishment of Indigo works

Caribbean

BY this Ordinance, to encourage the settlers to set up indigo works and to devise new manufactures in the islands, M. de Baas orders that all those who wish to raise and build indigo works, or to introduce new manufactures whose use is useful and necessary to the public, besides the preference they will have in choosing nègres from the first cargoes, shall also enjoy exemption from the capitation duties for their own persons and for the number of eight nègres during the first two years of their establishment, counting from the day they have made their declarations at the Greffe, and these have been served on the Commis général to whom they shall be required to apply, both to have the said establishments verified and examined, and to receive from him the necessary instructions for the proper making of Indigos, and to make some of Guatemala, which is the title of the first kind, of better and greater value.

Registered at the Conseil of Martinique on the 16th of the same month of February 1672. (This extract is taken from the Collection of M. Assier.)

Source  ·  p. act 00:143 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 1) (1784-1790), p. act 00:143