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1780-05-20

REGULATION of the Intendant, concerning the nègres of Private Persons, put on the King’s Chain by way of discipline

Haitian

Jean-Baptiste Guillemin de Vaivre, &c.

Having been informed that several settlers, to avoid paying the costs of their nègres’ illnesses, send them to the Prisons of this City, to be attached to the chain, under the false pretext of correction; and it being necessary to destroy an abuse so harmful to the King’s interests; We forbid the Jailers of the said Prisons to receive on the chain any enslaved person of the settlers who has not first been presented to His Majesty’s Surgeon, who will judge whether he is fit or not to render service to the King; in the latter case the said enslaved person will not be received. To this end, the jail entry of the said enslaved people sent to the Chain will be initialed at each item by the King’s Surgeon, whom we direct to see to the execution of this, which will be registered at the Contrôle de la Marine. GIVEN at Cap, 20 May 1780. Signed, de Vaivre.

Registered at the Contrôle, the 22nd.

Source  ·  p. act 06:24 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 06:24