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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [683] (727/733)
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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88
SLAVE TRADE.
683
ENGAGEMENTS ENTERED INTO BY THE PERSIAN
WITH THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. FOR PREVEN1
PERSIAN PS™ 0 " W SEA 0F
Letter* from Hajee Mirza Agiiasee to Lieutenant Colonel Fae-
B ' ntamuc Majesty's Chargk d'Affaires at the Court
of lehran, dated June 12M, 1848.
Your communication regarding Negroes has been received, and its
contents fully understood.
friem/b nV'Tl ^ the 1 ' eqUeSt by y0U ' my sincere and esteemed
friend, and solely on account of the sincere friendship and good feelings
i nter ,T n /7 1 ardS yOU ' 1 did not it proper to withhold or
delay the fulfilment of your desire, and exerted my endeavours to
preserve the existing friendship between the two exalted Governments
of Persia and England, by laying your request in detail at a most
fortunate time before His Majesty &c. &c. the Shah (may his dominion
and sovereignty be everlasting! ).
An imperative order has been issued, which evinces the exceedin^y
great favour entertained towards you, my honoured friend, by his Majesty
. C' the Sh ah, which it is evident will always increase The
importation of slaves by sea alone is forbidden, and imperative orders
will be issued to the Governors of Fars and Arabia, that hereafter strict
prohibition should be observed that no Negroes should be either
imported or exported, except by land.
1 his affair, in fulfilment of the request of that esteemed friend, has
thank God, been concluded through the countless favour of His Majesty
&c. (fcc. &c. the Shah, towards you, and by my exertions.
But the Persian Ministers, in equal proportion, require that, by the
true friendship of the Ministers of the British Government, when they
make a request it will also be acceded to.
Translated by
(Signed) Joseph Reed.
Note . This communication was addressed to Lieutenant Colonel Farrant, under the
authority of an autograph letter from His Majesty Mahomed Shah, the late Shah of Persia
to Hajee Mirza Aghasee, dated the 12th June 1848. " '
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1:28, 1:48, 50:688, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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