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1698-01-21

TREATY between the Companies of Senegal and Guinea, and the Settlers of Saint-Domingue interested in the Expedition to Cartagena, to supply a thousand nègres to the latter

Haitian

BEFORE the Notaires at Paris undersigned, were present, etc. All Directors and Interested Parties in the Royal Company of Senegal and the Coasts of Africa, as much for themselves as for the other Interested Parties in the said Company, for whom they act as guarantors, of the one part; and Messire Joseph de Galifet, Lieutenant de Roi in the Island of Saint-Domingue in America, as much for himself as for the Shipowners of the said Island of Saint-Domingue who took part in the expedition to Cartagena, for whom he acts as guarantor by virtue of the express order of Monseigneur de Pontchartrain, Minister and Secretary of State, Controller-General of Finances and Superintendent of Commerce, the said sieur de Galifet being at present in this City.

On 8 March the 150,000 livres were paid, and on the 2? July following the balance was settled.

Source  ·  p. act 00:469 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 1) (1784-1790), p. act 00:469