De par le Roi. Réglement de police
Subtitle: Du 19 juin 1772
Contributors: Dubois, G.; Port-au-Prince (Haiti). Conseil supérieur; France. Sovereign (1715-1774 : Louis XV)
Publisher: Chez Guillot, imprimeur brévéte du Roi.
Published: 1772
Place of publication: Au Port-au-Prince
Language: fre
Subjects: Slaves -- Law and legislation -- Haiti.; Blacks -- Law and legislation -- Haiti.; Haiti -- History -- To 1790.; Haiti -- Politics and government -- To 1790.
Other titles: Revolutions de St Domingue.
Work titles: Réglement (1772 Jun. 19)
Notes: Caption title.

Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.

Prohibited slaves from bearing arms and assembling in large groups; also barred slaves from selling sugar cane. Not only slaves but also free people of color and free Blacks were prohibited from dancing the night time dances known as "kalendas"

Signed and dated on p. 7: Donné au Port-au-Prince ... le vingt-trois mai mil sept cent soixante-douze.

Signatures: [A] ([A]4 verso blank)

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 2nd item of 34 in v. 4 of 4 vol. set with: Mémoire en réponse a celui du commerce de France, Port-au-Prince, 1773.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library: Me. G. Dubois: stamp on caption title page.