Pierre Laurens and J.B. Plauché, on behalf of David Lejeune of Bayou Sara, appeared before the Mayor and City Council of New Orleans and, according to a prior agreement, they sold to the City, for 60 piastres 12 1/2 cents, a male slave named Bartelet, age about forty, who belonged to Lejeune. The slave was a runaway, in poor health, who had been in the police jail for some time. The purchase price was equal to the sum Lejeune owed the City for expenses in his capture and detainment.
