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1711-04-20

ORDINANCE of the King, providing that the enslaved who have incurred only the penalties of Whipping, the Fleur-de-Lys and Cropped Ears shall be sentenced in last resort by the ordinary Juges

Haitian

HIS MAJESTY having, by his Ordinance of the month of March 1685, concerning the enslaved of America, Article XXXII, ordered that all corporal penalties pronounced by the ordinary Juges against enslaved Black people would be brought by appeal to the Conseils Supérieurs, it was represented to His Majesty that, the number of Black people having increased considerably and crimes being more frequent, the appeal of the Sentences of the said ordinary Juges caused great inconveniences and prevented the enslaved from being punished even for the greatest crimes, the length of the Proceedings often facilitating their means of escape, which, together with the expense of their food borne by the Settlers during the time of their detention, kept them from denouncing them and delivering them to Justice; it being necessary to provide for this, and, while assuring the punishment of crimes, to put an end to the pretexts which the Settlers use for not disclosing those that their Black people may commit.

And at that of the Cap, the 24th December following.

Source  ·  p. act 01:214 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 01:214