Réglement concernant les gens de couleur libres
Subtitle: Extrait des registres du Conseil superieur du Port-au-Prince
Contributors: Valliere, Louis-Florent, chevalier de; Vincent, Jean-François, chevalier de Montarcher
Publisher: chez Guillot, imprimeur bréveté du Roi.
Published: 1773
Place of publication: Au Port-au-Prince
Language: fre
Other titles: Amerique.
Work titles: Réglement (1773 July 16)
Notes: Caption title.

Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.

Signed and dated on p. 4: le 16 juillet 1773. Valliere & Montarcher.

Concerns the rules on how mulattoes, and other gens de couleur who were born free can take the last names of their fathers, and how freed slaves can take the names of their masters that gave them their freedom.

Signatures: [A]².

Engraved headpiece above caption title.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 5th item of 28 with: Procès-Verbal [sic] de l'Assemblée des deux Conseils supérieurs de la colonie, des officiers militaires & d'administration y ayant séance, & des commandans des milices des différens quartiers, tenue au Port-au-Prince les 20 & 31 octobre 1770, Cap-Français [i.e. Cap-Haitien], 1770.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the JCB Associates.