24 Order of the Council of the Ile-de-France, Ile-de-France, 27 April 1766. ANOM, COL, C4/16, f. 48-48v. Vaughan, 2001, pp. 41-80.  
and that a third attempt would be punishable by death. Deserters also risked death if they failed to surrender immediately. The Cape Slave Code of 1754, supplementing the Statuten van Batavia of 1642 and later the Nieuwe Statuten van Batavia of 1766, did not contain punishments for desertion, but there were instances of executions or the cutting of tendons (Nederlandsch-Indisch Plakaatboek 1885, vol. I, pp. 572-576; 1891, vol. IX, pp. 572-592; Naudé and Jeffreys 1944-1949, pp. 1-17). There does not appear to have been any code of punishments but, on the Mascarene Islands, minor desertion was likely to have been pardoned or punishable within the confines of the private residence concerned, probably by flogging, as on the Cape (Worden, 1985, pp. 106-108).