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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [662] (706/733)
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.
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On behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, her heirs and successors.
(Signed) Atkins Hamerton,
Captain.
Seal of Captain
llamerton.
ANNO UNDECIMO et DUODECIMO VICTORIA REGINiE.
Cap. CXXVIII.
An Act for carrying into effect* the Agreement between Her Majesty
and the Imaum of Muskat,/^/* the more effectual Suppression of
the Slave Trade. [5th September 1848.]
Whereas on the second day of October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and forty-five, an Agreement was concluded and
signed at Zanzibar, between Captain Atkins Hamerton, of Her Ma
jesty''s Pioyal Navy,\ on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Highness Syud Saeed
bin Sultan, the Imaum of Muskat, whereby it ivas agreed as follows:—
Article I.
His Highness the Sultan of Muskat hereby engages to prohibit, under
the severest penalties, the export of slaves from his African dominions,
and to issue orders to his officers to prevent and suppress such trade.
Article II, •
His Highness the Sultan of Muskat further engages to prohibit, under
the severest penalties, the importation of slaves from any part of Africa
into his possessions in Asia, and to use his utmost influence with all the
Chiefs of Arabia, the Tied Sea, and the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, in like manner to
prevent the introduction of slaves from Africa into their respective terri
tories.
Article III.
His Highness the Sultan of Muskat grants to the ships of Her Ma
jesty's Navy, as well as those of the East India Company, permission
to seize and confiscate any vessels, the property of His Highness or of
* Instructions to tlie Commanders of the Honorable East India Company's ships, for
cairying into execution the provisions of this Act, will be found at the end of this Selection.—
Editor.
t For Her Majesty s Royal Navy," read " 16th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry."—
Editor,
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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)
- Arrangement
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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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