SAINT-DOMINGUE. P.S. by V.F. DELPECH, secretary of the Natio - Lot 221

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SAINT-DOMINGUE. P.S. by V.F. DELPECH, secretary of the Natio - Lot 221
SAINT-DOMINGUE. P.S. by V.F. DELPECH, secretary of the National Civil Commission delegated to St. Domingue († 1793), to Cape Town October 12, 1792; 2 pages in-fol. ink stamp National Civil Commission delegated to St. Domingue. Dispatch "for M. le Gouverneur" of a decree of Étienne Polverel, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and Jean-Antoine Ailhaud, National Civil Commissioners delegated to the Leeward Islands, forbidding the authorizing officer and director general to pay any sum for a mission to St. Domingue of M. Dormenan, adjutant general of the army: "there is a government commissioner of the French part of St. Domingue, who by his rank of captain of infantry and by the military decoration with which he is clothed, adequately supports the dignity of the French government", especially considering "the state of extreme distress in which the colony is"... They also ask the commander of the station "to keep at the orders of the Governor General, the least expensive light ship, to carry to the Spaniard the dispatches that he could have to send there"...
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