1 sheet ([1] p.) ;|c41 x 32 cm. (fol.) Caption title

Imprint printed at foot of second column

Dated and signed at foot of second column: Fait au Cap, le 18 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 raw materials, tools, and other objects useful to the Republic left behind by traitors, émigrés, and foreigners

Roquincourt, T. Marine et les colonies

"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. 22" in ms. hand in upper left hand corner

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

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