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1781-01-15

ORDINANCE of the Administrators, concerning Goldsmiths

Haitian

FRANÇOIS Reynaud de Villeverd, etc.

Joseph-Alexandre Le Brasseur, etc.

We have been informed that for a long time the greatest abuses have been creeping into the Goldsmithing trade of this Colony, through the ease with which all Private persons indiscriminately, even people of color, practice the profession of Goldsmith without being bound to fulfill any of the municipal formalities established in France for the Guilds of Arts and Trades, and through the lack of a fixed standard for the gold and silver materials they use, and of a general and proof Hallmark that could guarantee it for the whole Colony; considering next that from these multiplied abuses results one still greater, that of debasing the coinage and halting its circulation: We, by virtue of the powers granted to us by His Majesty, have ordered and do order as follows.

Source  ·  p. act 06:81 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 06:81