[DEPORTATION AUX COLONIES] Déclaration du Roy, donnée à Versailles le premier jour de juillet 1722. Concernant les vagabons & gens sans aveu

First edition of this important decree, which partially repeals the compulsory deportation measures established by the declarations of 8 January and 12 March 1719. 

Responding to the repeated complaints of colonial governors, the royal government henceforth resolved that only voluntary emigrants should be sent to populate the colonies.

Our copy is offered unbound.

Wroth & Annam, 966, record this text only through Moreau de Saint-Méry's legislative compilation.