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1733-01-20

ORDINANCE of the Administrators, providing for the reestablishment of the Maréchaussée

Haitian

THE Marquis de Fayet, &c.

Jean-Baptiste Duclos, &c.

The disorders of the marrons, which increase every day and cause the Settlers great harm, and the establishments they make in the mountains, the consequences of which may be significant, obliging Us to seek every means of destroying them, in order to procure for the Settlers tranquillity in their labors and the safety of the Quarters; We have judged it proper to reestablish the Maréchaussée, as it was formerly, and to renew the regulations made on this subject by our predecessors, for which reason we order:

Source  ·  p. act 03:340 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 03:340