1803_09_17_01_WPA_01

file 47 - Year 1803
Don Renato Arnaud, Captain and Master
of the Spanish Schooner called "La Flora", presented
a petition, attached to his registration papers
of his ship, which was duly registered at Cuba,
and said ship was free to go to any friendly
nation. Said petitioner stated that when leaving
Trinidad, Cuba, with his respective registration, for
Jamaica, with a cargo of mahogany to be
exchanged for a certain number of negroes which
were three wild negro slaves, three negresses slaves,
also wild, and a negro child of two years of age
as specified in said Registration, and when ready
to leave for Trinidad he was compel by the
government of Jamaica, to bring on board, several
French prisoners, some of them for Cuba, and
others for this Province as stated on documents
presented by the petitioner In Cuba, the Governor
increased the number of French prisoners to be
brought to this Province which inconveniences deprived
him from selling said negroes in Cuba.
Therefore with all this information furnished by
petitioner who requested for a permit to disembark
here, the mentioned negroes, providing that they
are bush negroes.
The Chief Accountant Don Juan Ventura Morales
after a careful reading of said documents, ordered
a further information from the Administration
Office Don Jose Antonio de((ll))loa, who informed
that in spite of not having seen the documents regarding
the prisoners detained for this Province and
in view of being close the date for the delivery
of this Province to the French Government (over)