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1761-10-03

ORDINANCE of the Intendant, touching the registration of Receipts for the fees on Liberties at the Contrôle of the Marine

Haitian

JEAN-Etienne-Bernard de Clugny, &c.

By our Ordonnance of 8 May last, we ordered that two special registers, numbered and initialed by us, should be kept at the Contrôle, one of which would serve for the registration of all the Ordonnances of ordinary and extraordinary receipts that may concern the accounts of the Marine, and the other for the registration of the Ordonnances of receipts relating to the arrears in the accounts of the Curators of vacant successions, Receveurs of fines, aubaines, confiscations, Directors of the Posts, &c., so that the Controller may be assured of the state of the situation of each accountant or debtor to the treasury; but as it is no less important to put this Officer in a position to know what may be the yield of the funds coming from the taxes imposed by us on the liberties of mulâtres and other people of mixed blood, and to be informed of the state of the principal Treasurer of the Marine in this respect, we have ordered and order as follows; namely:

Source  ·  p. act 04:376 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 4) (1784-1790), p. act 04:376