REGULATORY DECREE of the Conseil du Petit Goave, concerning the levy to be made for the reimbursement of nègres executed

TODAY, the eleventh of May 1725, the Procureur-Général entered and said: that upon the examination he has made of the number of the enslaved who have been executed within the jurisdiction of the Conseil, and of those who have been killed in the public hunts, since the rendering of the accounts of M. Branda, there appears to be owed to those who claimed to own the said enslaved people, for their reimbursement, about 12 to 13 thousand livres; which it being necessary to provide for, etc. THE CONSEIL has ordered that, to provide for the reimbursement of the nègres executed, there shall be levied on each head of nègres of the jurisdiction, paying dues, one scalin, worth today 11 sols 6 deniers and a half, which shall be collected by the Receveur named below, the sum arising from the present levy, together with the arrears remaining to be paid of the said funds, carried forward in the account rendered by the sieur Branda, to be used to pay for the nègres who have been executed, and who shall be hereafter, according to the Decrees of reimbursement that have been and will be rendered for…