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1715-10-25

ORDINANCE of the Administrators concerning a Hunt for the nègres marrons found at the Béate

Haitian

The Comte de Blénac, etc.

Jean-Jacques Mithon, etc.

The French and Spanish nègres marrons who are taken at the Béate shall be paid for to the French and Spanish troop that will be commanded for this expedition, at the rate of 25 piastres per head of nègre, by the enslavers who claim to own them, and those who are killed shall likewise be paid for at the same sum of 25 piastres to the said troop, by reimbursement from public funds. The sums arising from the said nègres taken and killed shall be divided equally among the said troop, the tenth part having first been taken from the said sums and handed over, in equal shares, to the two French and Spanish Commandants. All this is in conformity with the regulations of the Conseil of June [?], 1711, to which we shall strictly see. GIVEN at Léogane, etc.

Source  ·  p. act 01:396 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 2) (1784-1790), p. act 01:396