Charles André Cerisay, Sheriff of St. James Parish, submits that a runaway slave named Etienne, who has been confined to his jail since the 4th of June 1817, claims to belong to Mr. Robis, a sugar planter from the "the Terre aux boeufs," below New Orleans. However, Cerisay claims, nobody has in fact claimed Etienne in the two years since he placed an "advertisement in two NewsPapers of the City of New Orleans in french and English." During that time Etienne has remained in jail at his expense. Cerisay therefore claims that he is now authorized by the "twenty ninth Section of the black Code" to sell Etienne at public auction. He prays that Etienne be "sold to the highest bidder for Cash, after the publications required by the law," so that he may be "reimbursed of the expenses incurred" for the maintenance of the confined slave.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: St. James Parish Courthouse, Convent, Louisiana
