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1779-04-21

ORDINANCE of the Gouverneur-Général, providing for an increase in the Corps of Volunteer Chasseurs

Haitian

ROBERT, Comte d’Argout, etc.

The circumstances requiring that each Company of the Corps of Volunteer Chasseurs of Saint-Domingue be brought to 103 men, whose full strength had been fixed at 79 by our Ordinance of last March 12; it being accordingly necessary, for the good of the service, to increase the number of Officers in proportion to that of the Fusiliers, and wishing to conform to Article XXXVII of the King’s Ordinance of April 1, 1768, concerning the Militias, which establishes in time of war a Captain in Second in the Companies of People of color; We, by virtue of the powers entrusted to us by His Majesty, have regulated and ordered, and do regulate and order what follows;

ART. I. Each Company shall be commanded by a Captain-Commandant, a Captain in Second, a Lieutenant and a Sous-Lieutenant, and composed of a Quartermaster-Sergeant, 4 Sergeants, 8 Corporals, 88 Fusiliers and 2 Drummers.

Source  ·  p. act 05:823 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 5) (1784-1790), p. act 05:823