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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎636] (680/733)

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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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SLAVE TRADE
The first obligation imposed upon the Arab Chieftains in the Persian
Gulf, with reference to the Traffic in Slaves, was the provision forming
Article IX. of the General Treaty of 1820 * The words are" The 4
carrying off of slaves, men, women, and children, from the Coasts of
Africa or elsewhere, and the transporting them in vessels, is plunder and
piracy, and the friendly Arabs shall do nothing of this nature."
This Article has ever been understood and held as forbidding only
the carrying off of men, women, and children as slaves, and the transport
ing them in vessels, when so carried oif, although the words may be
said to bear the same comprehensive sense of forbidding the carry
ing off of slaves, and the transporting of slaves, however procured,
in vessels ; but even this most extended acceptation cannot be con
strued into forbidding the purchase of slaves, and the transport of
them overland, unless indeed the last clause, which provides that the
friendly Arabs shall do nothing of this nature, embraces everything.
The Arabic sentence bears precisely the same meaning, and is liable
to the same opposite constructions.
It would be manifestly unjust to enforce this Article, imposing the
same punishment on dealing in slaves as on piracy, whilst at the same
time the Imaum of Muskat, the Turks, the Persians, and all the Arabs
not included in this Treaty, are allowed to carry on the trade. The
effect, moreover, would be only to benefit the latter, by throwing the
trade into their hands.
The following observations upon this subject, made by Captain
McLeod, Resident in the Gulf in 1823, hold good to the present day
"But in whatever sense the words of the Treaty may be understood
by either party, I am convinced that our utmost endeavours to abolish
the Slave Trade amongst the parties to the Treaty will be ineffectual as
long as the other powers of the Gulf persist in it. We may, perhaps,
put a stop to the carrying off of slaves, but their purchase and transport
* \ ide pages "S to 80 of this Selection.

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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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