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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎245] (287/733)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (364 folios). It was created in 1856. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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MUSKAT. 245
liisii'
e,!] freedom of exportation and importation ; prohibition of monopolies and
exclusive privileges; exceptions, valuation, and sale of British goods;
passage of merchandize in the event of war with a third party ; vessels
in distress, and shipwrecks; suppression of the slave trade; vessels of
war of the East India Company allowed to give full force and effect to
the stipulations of this treaty, in the same way as vessels of war of Her
Britannic Majesty ; commerce and navigation within the limits of the
East India Company's Charter.
The ratifications of this treaty were exchanged by Lieutenant Colonel
Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , on behalf of Her Majesty, at
Muskat, on the 22nd July 1840.
On the 2nd of October 1845, a further Treaty was concluded at
Zanzibar, with His Highness the Imaum of Muskat, by Captain
Atkins Hamerton, 15th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry, Her Bri
tannic Majesty's Consul, and Honorable Company's Agent, on the part
of Her Majesty, for the suppression of the exportation of slaves, from and
after the 1st January 1847, from the African possessions of His Highness.
By this treaty the Imaum engaged to prohibit the export of slaves
from his African dominions, to prevent and suppress the trade, to
prohibit the importation of slaves into his Arabian possessions from
any part of Africa, and to use his influence with the Chiefs of the Red
Sea, Arabia, and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , to prohibit and prevent the impor
tation of slaves from Africa into their respective territories ; and also
granted permission to the ships of Her Majesty's of the Honorable
Company's Navy, to seize and confiscate all vessels, the property
of His Highness, or of his subjects, carying on the slave trade,
excepting such as are engaged in the transport of slaves from one
port to another in his own dominions in Africa, between certain
limits provided for in the treaty.
On the 5th September 1848, an Act was passed by the Parliament of
Great Britain, for giving effect to the provisions of this treaty.
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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).

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1 volume (364 folios)
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The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.

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Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.

The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.

Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.

The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.

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