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1782-02-19

ORDINANCE of the Juge de Police of the Cap, which forbids continuing to insult a private person

Haitian

THE Procureur du Roi submits that the persistence of the nègres of this City in following through the streets and insulting a White private person named la Poterie continues still, despite the precautions you took to try to stop such a scandal, which does the greatest harm to the respect owed to the status of White person by people of color; We believe we cannot succeed in suppressing so revolting an abuse except by the promulgation of a Police Ordinance which, in forbidding this kind of popular disturbance, contains at the same time penalties against those who violate it: for which reason, etc.

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Source  ·  p. act 06:182 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 06:182