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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎655] (699/733)

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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
vested with full powers hy His
Excellency Sir R obert F arquiiar,
Bart., Governor of the Island of
Mauritius.
A rticle I.
That you (the Iraaum of Mus-
kat) do instruct all the governors
and authorities throughout your
dominions to prohibit the sale
of slaves by your subjects to Chris
tians ol every description.
A rticle II.
That you do issue orders to all
your officers throughout your do
minions, as well in Zanzibar as in
other places, that if they discover
the owners of any Arab vessels
buying slaves for the Christian
market, they do take possession of
such vessels, with whatever they
may contain, and send them to
you (the Imaum), with their
commanders and crews, for pu
nishment.
A rticle III.
That it be made imperative up
on the crews of all ships that shall
clandestinely transport slaves to
Christian countries, to give, on
their return to the Arab port
whence they set sail, information
of such traffic to the governor or
authority at that port, that he may
punish the commanders of such
ships ; also, that on failing to give
this information, they (the crews)
shall themselves suffer punish
ment.
A rticle IV.
That you give me a written
tifs ship Menai, Commissioner,
tyc.
I.
I did write last season to all
my officers, positively prohibiting
the sale of slaves to any Christian
nation, and I will repeat those
orders.
ii.
I will send orders to all the
officers throughout my dominions,
that if they find (the owners of)
any Arab vessels buying slaves for
sale in Christian countries, they
must take possession of all such
vessels, and inflict punishment on
the commanders (owners) thereof,
even though they be bound for
Madagascar.
III.
I will instruct my officers, and
publish generally, such instruc
tions throughout my dominions,
that the crews of any vessels
carrying slaves for sale in Chris
tian countries be enjoined on their
return to the Arab port to give in
formation to the authority at such
port, that he may punish the
commanders, and that if they
come to be detected in concealing
such information, they (the crews)
shall themselves suffer punish
ment.
IV.
The authority you require, per-
I
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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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