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Politics and government, Military law, Draft resisters, Broadsides, Draft, Law and legislation, HistoryPlaces
Cap-Haïtien, HaitiTimes
1791-1804, Revolution, 1791-1804Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Commission civile de la république
1793, de l'Imprimerie de de la commission civile de la République
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Au Cap [Cap-Haïtien, Haiti]
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Caption title.
Imprint printed at foot of third column.
Dated and signed at foot of third column: Fait au Cap, le 21 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 three parallel columns after caption title and statement of responsibility; columns of text separated by printer's rules; engraved ornamental headpiece bearing the words "La République française" printed above caption title.
Proclamation by Polverel and Sonthonax ordering mobilization; the first two pieces are laws of 25 August, and 2 September 1792, each of which relates to the arming of military personnel; followed by a proclamation consisting of eleven articles implementing the laws and ordering the conscription of citizens; the punishment for refusing to serve in the army was seizure, disarmament, trial by military tribunal for treason, and finally execution.
Roquincourt, T. Marine et les colonies, 2556.
"Pour copie conforme à l'original. Polverel (?)" followed by indecipherable ms. notation beneath name of printer in column three; official seal of the Commissaires nationaux-civils of Saint-Domingue stamped underneath second column.
John Carter Brown Library copy has "No. 32" 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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