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London, England, 1801-10-15 00:00:00

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REGULATIONS RESPECTING PIELD-LABOUR.
TOLIMANT LOUVIATVAE, GLNIRAL IN CNIU et
TM! ARMY OF ST. DOMINGO, TO ALL THR CIVIL
AND MILITARY OFFICLIIS OF THE ISLAND.

Crrizasts—After putting an end to the war in
the South, our fiat duty has been to return thanks
to the At mien TT, which we have done with a zeal

becoming fo great a blefEng. Now, Citizens it is
neceffary to confecrate all our moments to the pro-
fperky of St. Domingo, to the public tranquillity,
and confequently to the welfare of our Fellow.
citizens.
But to attain this end in an effeanal manner,

all the Civil and Military Officers muff make it
• their battlers, every one in their refpeaive depart-
ments, to perform the duties of their offices with
devotion and attachment to the public welfare.
You will eafily conceive, Citizens, that Agricul-
ture is the fupport of Government; fince it is the
foundation of Commerce and Wealth, the fource
of Arts and Incluftry, it keeps every body em-
ployed, as being the mechanifin of all trades: and
from the moment that every individual becomes
ufeful, it creates public tranquillity-; difturbances
difappear, together with idlenefs, by which they
are commonly generated, aad every one peaceably
enjoys the fruits of his induliry.
Officers, Civil and Military, this is what you
mutt aim at; fuch is the plan to be adopted,which
I prefcribe to you ; and I declare, in the nwtt pe-
remptory manner, that it (hall be enforced. My
Country demands this falutary ; I am bound,
to it by my office, and the fecurity of our Liberties
demands it imperioufly.
But in order to fecure our Liberties, which are
indifpenfible to our happineft, every individual
mutt be ufefully employed, fo as to contribute to
the public good, and the general tranquillity.
Conlidenng that the Soldier, who has facred
shales to perform, as being the fafeguard of the
People, and in perpetual aaivity to execute the
orders of his Chief, either for maintaining interior
tranquillity, or for fighting abroa4 the enemies of
the Country, is ftrialy fnbordinate to his Superior
Officers; and as it is of great importance that
overfeers, drivers, and fielcUnegroes, who in like
manner have their Superiors, fhould conduit them-
(elves as officers, fubalterns, and foldicrs; in what-
ever may concern them.
Confidering that, when an Officer, a Subaltern,
or a Soldier, deviates from his duty, he is deliver-
ed over to a Court-martial, to be tried and punifh-
ed according to the laws of the Republic, for in.
military fervice no rank is to be favoured when
guilty ; the overfeers, drivers, and field.negroes,
as fubjea to coriftant labour, and equally fuimr-
dinate to their fuperiors, (hall be punilbed in like
manner,, in cafe of failure in their refpeaive duties.
Whereas a Soldier cannot leave his company,
his battalion, or half.brigade, and enter into ano-
ther, without the fevered puni(hment, unlefs pro-
vided with a permiffion in due form from his,
Chief; field-negrces are forbiddensto quit their
relpeftive plantations without a lawful permiffion;
this is by no means attended to, fince they change
their place of labour as they pleafe, go to and fro.
ana pay, not the lean attention to agriculture.
though the only means of furnifhing Cudenance to
the military, their proteaors: they even conceal
themfelves in towns, in villages, and mountains, '
where. allured by the enemies of good order, they
live by by plunder, and in a !late of open hoftility
to fociety.
Whereas, fince the Revolution, labourers of
both texes, then too young to be employed in the
field, refufe to go to it now under pretext of free-
dom, fpend their time in wandering about, and
give a bad example to the other cultivators; while,
on the other hand. the Generals, Officers, Subal-
terns. and Soldiers, are in a Sate of conftant ac-
tivity to maintain the facred rights of the people.
And whereas, my Proclamation of the 25th
Brumaire of the 7th year, to the people of St. Do.
Mingo, was calculated to eftablifti an uniform fyf
tem of inceffant and labourious induftry ; at the
fame time that it required from all the Citizens
indif.riminately the co-operation of the Cultiva-
tors, Soldiers, and Civil Powers, as neceffary for '
the reiteration of St. Domingo: it being therefore
my determination that the above-mentioned Pro-
clamation fhoald be carried into full effea, and
that the abufes now in praaice amongft the la-
bourers lbould be at an end, from the publication
of this prefent regulation, I do molt peremptorily
order as follows :
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Art. I. All Overran, Drivers, and Field Negroes, arc bound
to obferve, with mediae's' fubmiffion, and obedience, their
duty in the fame manner as Soldiers.
Art. 2. All Overfecrs, Drivers, and Field-Labourer% who
wUI not perform with ankluity the duties required of them,
!hall be arrefted end pun:thed as feverely as foldiers deviating
from their duty After which punlthment, if the offender be
an Omirfeer, be ball be entitled la Oil of the Rcgimaiti of the
Arm of St. Domingo : If a Driver, be flail be difmiffed from
his employment, and placed among the Field negroes, without
ever being permitted to ad as a Driver spin : And, if a Com-
mon Labourer, he 0 all be punibed with the fame feverity as a
Private Soldier, according to his guilt.
Art. S. AU Fidd-Labourers. Men and Women, now in a
bate of Idlenefs, living it, Towns, Villages, and on other Plan-
tations than thofe to which they belong, with an Intention to
evade work, eves thofe of both Sexes, who have not been em-
nl:vecii in Field-labour Once the Revolotion, are required to re-
turn immediately to their refpeetive Plimations. If in the murk
of eight days, from the promulgation of this prefent regulation
they ball not produce fujcknt proof, to the Commanding Of-
' deers, in the places of their refidence, of their having Come ufe-
ful occupation or means of livelihood ; but it is to be undcr-
flood, that being a fervant, is not to be confidered as an ufeful
occupation: In confequence whereof, thofe atnongtl the La-
bourers who have quitted their Plantations In order to hire
themfelves Cull return thereto, under the perfonal refponbbi-
lity of thole with whom they live in that capacity. By the
terms, o an ufeful occupation" is meant, what enables a man
fo pay a Contribution to the State.
Art. 4. This rneafure, indifpenfible to the public welfare,
ely jpreferibes to all thole of either Sett that are not La-
Matkr:ra, to produce the proofs of their Milne an occupation
or prole/Son sufficient to gain their livelihood, and that they
can afford to pay a Contribution to the Republic. Otberwife,
and in default thereof, all thole who Mall be found In comes-
, ovation hereto, (hall be inlLntly arrefted, and if they arc
found guilty, :hey Mail Lc dr..T.e,l into one of the Regiments
of the Army : if not, they NO he fent to the Adel, and conk-
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riled to wnrk. This mclfurr, which is to be Aridity eafoteed,
Will put t Roy • r the idle habit of wand cing about, hinge it will
(oblige every etc to be uidully employed.

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Art s. Parents are woe* entreated to Wind to their &s-
-ty towards their Chili:hoe, which is, to make them good Citi-
zens; for that pop* they mutt lnitrudt than In good morals,
In the Chriftiao Religion, and the fear of Goo : Above ill, ex-
clave of Otis education, they mutt be brought up in fosse fpe-
tide bulled's or profeffwa, to enable them, not only to earn
I their living, but alto to contribute to the essences of the Gos
vanment.

Art. 6: All perfons refiding in Towns and Villages, who
Mall harbour Labourers of either Sea ; all Proprietors or Ten-
ants who Mall fuller on their Plantations Labourers belonging
to other Sitates, without immediately making it known to the
Commandant of the Diana, or other Military Officers in tba
places of their refidence, (hall pay a fine of 2,3, or eoci Lima,
according to the abilities of the delinquent ; In cafe of repetition
of tie offence, they Mall pay three times as much; if the floe
cannot be levied for want of effeds, the offender Mall be im-
prifoned for a month, and, lo cafe of repetition, for three
months.

Art. 7. Ths Overfeers and Drivers of every Plantation, flash
make it their bufmefs to inform theComrnanding Offices of the
Diltridt, in regard to the standodt of the Labourers under their
management ; as well as of thofe who flail abfent theaufaves
from their Plantations without a pafs; and of thofe who, re-
, tiding on the Mites, [hall refulk to work. They &all be forced
to go to the labour of the field, and if -they prove ebftinate,
they (hall be arrefted and carried before the Military Comman-
dant, in order to filler the punithment above preferibed, ac-
cording to the exigency of the cafe.
The Military Commandants who Chan not inform the Com-
mandants of Diftrias, and there the Generals under whole or-
ders they act, Ilia be Geverely punilhed,lat the difaction of the
laid Generals.
Alt. 8. The Generals commanding the Departments, nal I
henceforth be anfwenble to me for any negledt in the cultiva-
tion of their Midas : And when going through the leveret
Antibes and Departments, I Mall perceive any marks of negli-
gence, I gull proceed againft thofe who mall have tolerated it.
Art. 9. 1 forbid an Military men whatfoever, under the re-
fponfibility of the Commanding Officers, to ruff; any women
to remain in the barracks; thofe excepted that are married to
foldiers, as well as thofe who carry vietuals tonna confined to
their qutrters ; but there (ball not be allowed to remain any
time ; Plantation women are totally excluded. The Command-
ing Officers flail anfwer for the execullon of this Article.
Art. to. The Commandants of the towns, or the Officers In
the villages, (hail not fuller the Labourers or Field-negroes to
fpaad the decades in town; they mall alfo take We that
they do not conceal themfelves. Such Officers as Cannot punc-
tually at, end to this order, Quill be puniftsed with, fix days
confinement for the firft ante, a mouth for the fecond, and
theft be ealillered for the tb'rd offaiee. They (hall give infor-
mation to the Commandant of the dlftridt of fuch Labourers as
are found in the towns during the decades, and of the perfons
at whole hooks they were taken up, that the Paid perfons may
be condemned to pay the fine impaled by Article 6 of this pre-
fect regulation. The Plantation people, who (ball in Inch cafes
be brought before the Comma:dant of the diltria, than be fent
back to their Plantations after receiving their ounifhment, as
above dlreffted by Article 2j with a arcing recommendation to
the Commanding Officer of their quarter, that a watchful ere
may be kept on them for the future.

Art. It. All the Municipal Adminittradons of St. Domingo
arc requefted to take the wifcft ateatum together with the
Gamut:Audi of towns and of the dilirldis, to inform them-
(elves whether thole who call thernfelves Dotneftica really arc
in, °braving, that Plantation Negroes, cannot he Domain :
any perfoc keeping them in that quality will be liable to pay the
above-mentioned fine, as well as thole who than detain La-
bourers of either fex for any kind of employment.
Art. ix. All Commiffaries of Government in the Municipa-
lities will make it their ditty to inform me of all the abufes re-
fit:ding the execution of this Regulation, and to give advice of
the fame to the Generals of Department.

Art. 13. I command all the Generah of Deportment, Gene-
rals, and other principal Officers in the Diftridtsjo attend to the
execution of this Regulation, for which they fball be perfonally
rerefailble : and I flatter myfelf that their ;sal, in alffifting me to
the public profperity,wM not be momentary; convinced
as tbcy mutt be that Liberty cannot vain. without Induttry.
This prefent Regulation (ball be printed, read.
publilbed. and polled up wherever it is necetfary,
even on Plantations; Co that no one may pretend
ignorance thereof. It (hall likewife be fent to all
the Civil and Military Authorities, together with
my Proclamation of the ssth Brumaire above-men-
tioned ; which for that purpofe than be re-printed,
fo that every one may conform ftridly w the du-
ties required of him. •
Given at Head-quarters, Port Republican, VINNICTIIIIIrt
xoth, ninth year of the French Republic, one and inell-
viflble
TOUSSAINT LOUTCRTURI. General In Chief.

LONDON.

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SAINT DOMINGO. ti w
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In thi
REGULATIONS RESPECTING !TEED-LABOUR. clam
TOLIMANT LOUVIATVAE, GLNIE•L IN CHIST er cifie
TM! ARMY OF ST. DOMINGO, TO ALL-THR CIVIL their
vans
AND EIFLITART OFFICLAS or THE ISLAND. Al
Crrizasts—After putting an end to the war in Mall
the South, our firft duty has been to return thanks ants
to the ALMICH rT, which we have done with a zeal t'„..c'tl
becoming fo great a bleffing. Now, Citizens, it is puTe
neceffary to confecrate all our moments to the pro- Amin
(perky of St. Domingo, to the public tranquillity, oath
and confequently to the welfare of our Fellow. MID
citizens. petrol
mow
But to attain this end in an effeaual manner, A,
all the Civil and Military Officers muff make it Mal
• their bufinefs, every one in their refpeaive depart- Dial
ments, to perform the duties of their offices with Tar"
devotion and attachment to the public welfare. from
You will eafily conceive, Citizens, that Agricul- to el
tare is the fupport of Government; fince it is the they
foundation of Commerce and Wealth, the fource dant,
of Arts and Induftry, it keeps every body em-
ployed, as being the mechanifin of all trades: and 11,
from the moment that every individual becomes den
ufeful, it creates public tranquillity ; difturbances tats
• difappear, together with idlencfs, by which they Ai
are commonly generated, and every one peaceably hem
enjoys the fruits of his induftry. don'
Peril
Officers, Civil and Military, this is what you ao2C4
mutt aim at ; fuch is the plan to be adopted,which
I prefcribe to you ; and I declare, in the mitt pc- rpaa
remptory manner, that it (hall be enforced. My to re
Country demands this falutary fie? ; I am bound , fokik
to it by my office, and the fecurity of our Liberties ti their
me
demands it imperioufly. ing c
But in order to fecure our Liberties, which are A,
indifpenfible to our happinefr, every individual the
mutt be ufefully employed, fo as to contribute to fixim
the public good, and the general tranquillity. they
Coalidenng that the Soldier, who has facred Mat
duties to perform, as being the fafeguard of the than
People, and in perpetual aaivity to execute the Mid
orders of his Chief, either for maintaining interior are
tranquillity, or for fighting abroa4 the enemies of
the Country, is ftrilly fnbordinate to his Superior kat
Officers; and as it is of great importance that be bt
overfeers, drivers, and field-•negroes, who in like back
manner have their Superiors, fhould condo& them- the 1
(elves as officers, fubalterns, and foldicrs; in what- May
ever may concern them.
Confidering that, when an Officer, a Subaltern, arc r
or a Soldier, deviates from his duty, he is deliver- Can
et over to a Court-martial, to be tried and punifh- kin
ed according to the laws of the Republic, for in. a"'n'y;
military fervice no rank is to be favoured when
guilty ; the overfeers, drivers, and field-negroes, boon
- as &Nee to cortftant labour, and equally fuimr- At
dinate to their fuperiors, (ball be punilbed in like lid«
manner, in cafe of failure in their refpeaive duties.
Whereas a Soldier cannot leave his company, Ai
his battalion, or half-brigade, and enter into ono. mi..,
ther, without the fevered puni(hment, unlefs pro- exec,
vided with a permitlion in due form from his refpo
Chief; field•negrces are forbiddensto quit their •
relpeftive plantations without a lawful permiffion; "'„
this is by no means attended to, fince they change
their place of labour as they pleafe, go to and fro, pub
ana pay, not the lean attention to agriculture ever
though the only means of furnifhing Cudenance to Inc
the military, their proteEtors: they even conceal Ine
themfelves in towns, in villages, and mountains, Ty'
where, allured by the enemies of good order, they °'
fo LI
live by by plunder, and in a !late of open hoftility
ties
to fociety.
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