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1718-04-13

TARIFF by M. the General, and Regulation of the Conseil du Cap, concerning the fees of the Prévôt de Maréchaussée

Haitian

Tariff for the Prévôt.

FOR a marron taken in the plain and banlieue of the Cap, 15 livres. In the first mountains. . .

30 livres.

In the double mountains and among the Spanish, 75 livres. When the Prévôt with his Archers takes or kills nègres when he is detached against gatherings of nègres, for each nègre taken or killed 100 livres.

The Regulations made at the Cap by the Conseil may be different; in that case the Grand Prévôt must conform to them, and he has only to ask M. the Procureur Général, this 13 April 1718. Signed CHATEAUMORANT.

For the capture of marrons in the plain of the Cap, the mornes of the Cap where the settlers live who supply provisions to the town, 12 livres. In the quarter of Bayaha, the Trou, Jacquesy, Limbé and Port Margot, the nègres whom the Prévôt takes there and who belong to settlers and plantations of the said quarters, the same as in the plain, 12 livres.

Source  ·  p. act 01:511 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 01:511