ORDINANCE of the Administrators, which enjoins burying the enslaved nègres in the heights of the City of Port-au-Prince, above the place called the Polygone

GUILLAUME-Léonard de Bellecombe, etc.

Alexandre-Jacques Bongars, etc.

Informed by the complaints brought to us, and by the accounts that we had rendered to us, that there is no fixed place to bury the corpses of the nègres, and above all of those who arrive from the Coast; that moreover the persons claiming to own the deceased enslaved people, their Captains or farmers, take no precaution for this burial; which leads the nègres charged with this care to bury them for some time at the entrance of this town, at the place called la Croix Bossale, and to make only very shallow graves. Informed further that this ground, marshy in itself, is very ill suited to burial, in that it is not possible to dig deep graves there, and that the corpses are exposed to being easily dug up by dogs, which is repugnant to religion and humanity, and causes an infection in this quarter, as disagreeable as it is contrary to the healthfulness of the air. Wishing to remedy this: We, by virtue of the powers entrusted to us by His Majesty, have ordered and order the following: