Proclamation
By: nous, Étienne Polverel et Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, Commissaires civils de la Republique, délégués aux iles françaises de l'Amérique sous le vent pour y rétablir l'ordre et la tranquillité publique
Contributors: Polverel, Etienne, 1738-1794; Sonthonax, Léger Félicité, 1763-1813
Publisher: de l'imprimerie de la commission civile de la République
Published: 1793
Place of publication: Au Cap [i.e. Cap-Haïtien, Haiti]
Language: fre
Work titles: Proclamation (1793 July 20)
Notes: Caption title.

Imprint printed at foot of second column.

Dated and signed at foot of second column: Fait au Cap, le 20 juillet 1793, l'an 2 de la République. Polverel, Sonthonax. Par les Commissaires civils de la République. Poittevin, sécretaire adjoint de la Commission.

Printed in two parallel columns after caption title and statement of responsibility; columns of text separated by three engraved floral printer's motifs; engraved ornamental headpiece bearing the words "La République française" printed above caption title.

Proclamation ordering the expropriation of real and personal property from those who had left the colony without permission; once these people were declared "émigrés" the Republic could take possession of any of their goods and property, but would compensate them accordingly upon their return.

Roquincourt, T. Marine et les colonies, 2555.

"Pour copie conforme à l'original. Polverel (?)" followed by indecipherable ms. notation beneath name of printer in column two; official seal of the Commissaires nationaux-civils of Saint-Domingue stamped underneath third floral motif between columns.

John Carter Brown Library copy has "No. 12" in ms. hand in upper left hand corner.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.