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1779-03-12

ORDINANCE of the Gouverneur-Général, providing for the formation of a Corps of Volunteer Chasseurs of People of color of Saint-Domingue

Haitian

ROBERT, Comte d’Argout, etc.

In consequence of His Majesty’s orders, we have by Ordinances of this day ordered the levying of two Corps, one under the name of Volunteer Grenadiers, and the other of Volunteer Chasseurs of Saint-Domingue, this latter composed of People of color, mulâtres and free nègres; and it being necessary to make a Regulation concerning the administration of these Corps, and at the same time to make known the advantages and rewards that are granted in favor of good will, zeal and emulation, we have regulated and ordered, and do regulate and order what follows.

TITLE I. Salaries and pay.

ART. I. Having regulated by our Ordinance of this day that the Corps of Volunteer Grenadiers shall enjoy the same allowance as the Companies of Grenadiers of the Colonial Regiments, and that of the Volunteer Chasseurs the allowance of the Chasseurs of the said Regiments, the salaries and pay shall be paid without any deduction of four deniers per livre, on the footing below; namely, per year: To the Colonel, To the Lieutenant-Colonel, Staff.

Source  ·  p. act 05:813 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 05:813