Extrait des registres des déliberations de l'Assemblée provinciale du Nord de Saint-Domingue
Subtitle: Séance du 17 mai 1790
Contributors: Peinier, Louis Antoine Thomassin, comte de; Brossier; Cougnacq-Mion; Levesque
Publisher: de l'Imprimerie de l'Assemblée provinciale du Nord
Published: 1790
Place of publication: [Port-au-Prince, Haiti?]
Language: fre
Other titles: Papiers relatifs au Comte de Peynier, chef d'escadre.
Notes: Caption title.

Name of printer from colophon.

Signed on p. 4: Brossier, président, Cougnacq-Mion, Levesque, secrétaires.

Concerning the decree of 14 mai 1790 issued by the Assemblée générale stating that power can be held and exercised by a local assembly and not just by the Assemblée nationale in Paris.

Signatures: [A]².

Woodcut headpiece above caption title.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 31st item of 39 in vol. 1 of 2 vol. set with: Instruction pour les commandans des détachemens des gardes de la Marine, embarqués sur les vaisseaux de Sa Majesté, [Versailles, France?, 1781]

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: bound in two volumes of works relating to or printed in Saint-Domingue, formerly owned by Louis Antoine Thomassin, Comte de Peinier, who became squadron chief in 1784 and served as governor general of Saint-Domingue from 1789-1790.

John Carter Brown has contemporary (?) book stamp with two crossed swords under unidentified coat of arms and hanging scales with fleurs-de-lys surrounded by words "Cap - Salus populi suprema lex esto" i.e., "Cap [Français] - Let the health of the people be the highest law"

John Carter Brown Library copy has ms. signatures of Brossier, Coungacq-Mion et Levesque beneath name of printer on p. 4.

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