REGULATORY DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, on the Peddling of Goods by the enslaved

Having seen by the Conseil the Petition presented to it by the merchants and traders of the Cap, tending to have prohibitions made against all Merchants men and women, etc.; the conclusions of the Procureur-Général du Roi, and everything considered: THE CONSEIL, ruling on the said Petition, forbids all Merchants men and women from henceforth sending their enslaved nègres and négresses to sell goods from plantation to plantation unless they are accompanied and under the conduct of white people, who shall answer, as shall the enslavers, for all events, on pain of confiscation of the goods for the benefit of the Churches of the place where they are confiscated. Orders that the present be read, published, etc.