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1780-05-26

ORDINANCE of the Interim Commandant en Chef, concerning the establishment of five Companies of Chasseurs-Royaux, drawn from the Militia Companies of People of Color

Haitian

François Reynaud de Villeverd, etc.

Since it is necessary to make known His Majesty’s intentions concerning the service of his Militias, free people of color in Saint-Domingue, and wishing to give them the means of serving still more successfully than in the past; We, by virtue of the powers entrusted to us, have ordered and do order the following.

ART. I. Five Companies will be established, composed of free people of color in Saint-Domingue, recruited from the Militias of the said people of color, as will be explained below.

II. These five Companies will bear the name of Chasseurs-Royaux of Saint-Domingue.

III. Each Company will be commanded by a Captain, a Sous-Aide-Major, who will always have the rank of first Lieutenant in the Company, a Lieutenant and a Sous-Lieutenant, and will be composed of a Fourrier, four Sergeants, eight Corporals, and eighty-eight Fusiliers and Drummers.

The eight Corporals and the eighty-eight Fusiliers will form eight Squads of twelve men each.

Source  ·  p. act 06:27 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 6) (1784-1790), p. act 06:27