1711-02-02
ORDINANCE of the King, concerning the search for fugitive nègres who have passed into the Spanish Part, and which annuls the Decree of the Conseil of Léogane of 1 July 1709 on this subject
Haitian
HIS MAJESTY having been informed that the Officers of the Conseil Supérieur of Léogane have, by Decree of 1 July 1709, ordered that the enslaved nègres belonging to the Settlers of the Island of Saint-Domingue, who have become Fugitives or Refugees in the Spanish Lands, shall be brought back by a person who will be commissioned by the Comte de Choiseul, Gouverneur for His Majesty of the said Island of Saint-Domingue, to make the search for the said nègres, and who will be paid half the price of these nègres, according to the valuation that will be made by the said Commissioner or Agent, unless the said Settlers prefer to abandon the said nègre and receive half the price at which he was valued.
And at that of the Cap, 24 December following.
Source · p. act 01:206
Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 2) (1784-1790), p. act 01:206