Citizens who have been deported from Saint-Domingue will only be able to return there after the disturbances have ceased…”

Décret de la Convention nationale, du 5 mars 1793, l’an second de la république Françoise, qui déclare que toutes les Colonies françoises sont en état de guerre. No. 515.

Agen, Veuve Noubel & Fils, 1793.

4°, 2 pp.

Signed in ink at foot of verso.

Provincial edition from the Lot-et-Garonne Départment of a wartime legal act by the revolutionary government declaring that France’s overseas colonies are active conflict zones, enabling emergency military governance in response to rebellion, foreign threats, and revolutionary upheaval.
               “Citizens who have been deported from Saint-Domingue by order of the national commissioners Ailhaud, Santhonax, and Polverel… will only be able to return there after the disturbances have ceased…”