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1778-10-19

REGULATION of the Intendant, setting a Tariff for the price of days of nègre labor, saddle, pack or draft animals, and Carts, furnished by the settlers to the King,

Haitian

JEAN-BAPTISTE-GUILLEMIN DE VAIVRE, etc. It being necessary in the present circumstances to make a tariff to fix what shall be paid for nègres, carts and livestock that the settlers may be required to furnish in the case of the passage of troops, haulage and transport of munitions of war and of provisions; and on the opinion of M. le Cocq, Commissaire of the Colonies, Controller of the Navy at Saint-Domingue, the following has been resolved. For each nègre, including food, per day, 3 l. For riding horses with saddle and bridle, per day, 16 10 s., For the nègre who is obliged to lead the horse back, per day, For pack horses and mules, as well as for draft horses and mules, per day, For four oxen of a cart, per day, For carts, whether ox-drawn or mule-drawn, per day, For the transport of flour from the Cap to the grande Rivière, there shall be paid per barrel, For the same for a barrel of beef, This Tariff shall be registered at the Contrôle de la Marine. DONE at the Cap, etc. Signed DE VAIVRE.

Registered at the Contrôle, November 24 following.

Source  ·  p. act 05:777 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 5) (1784-1790), p. act 05:777