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1785-05-20

ORDINANCE of Police of the Juge of Jérémie, which enjoins the Citizens of the Town to send, each one, a nègre, to clean the front of the Church and of the Presbytery, because of the procession of the Fête-Dieu

Haitian

Having seen the Requisition of the Procureur du Roi, we enjoin all the settlers of the Town to send each one of their nègres to the Place d’armes, with their hoes, next Monday, eight o’clock in the morning, to clean the front of the Church and of the Presbytery of this Town, at all the places where the procession is to pass, on the day of the Fête-Dieu and of the Holy Sacrament, which labor detail shall be led by a police nègre, under the orders of the Exempt. We order that the present be read, published and posted at all the crossroads of this Town, and executed according to its tenor, on pain of a fine of fifty livres, against those who refuse to obey it. We command, etc. Made and given by us, Conseiller du Roi, Sénéchal, Civil, Criminal and Police Juge, at the Siége Royal of Jérémie, this 20 May 1785. Signed: DE

Source  ·  p. act 06:626 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 6) (1784-1790), p. act 06:626