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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [685] (729/733)
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.
685
of the exalted English Government, who enjoys the unbounded favour
of His Majesty the Shah, whose resplendent mind is desirous to gratify
him, made a friendly request on the part of the Ministers of that
exalted Government to the Ministers of His Majesty the Shah, &c. &c.,
that with a view to preserve the existing friendship between the two
exalted States, a decree should be issued from the source of magnificence
(the Shah), that hereafter the importation of the Negro tribes by sea
should be forbidden, and this traffic be abolished.
In consequence of this, it is ordered and ordained that, that high in
rank, after perusing this
Firman
A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
, which is equal to a decree of fate, it
will be incumbent on him to issue positive and strict injunctions to"the
whole of the dealers in slaves who trade by sea, that henceforth by sea
alone the importation and exportation of Negroes into the Persian
dominions is entirely forbidden, but not by land. Not a single indivi
dual will be permitted to bring Negroes by sea without being subjected
to severe punishment.
That high in rank must in this 'matter give peremptory orders
throughout his Government, and not be remiss.
Written in the month of Rujub 1264 (June 1848).
M emorandum .—These Firmans were confirmed by His Majesty the
present Shah of Persia, after his accession to the throne.
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Agreement with the Persian Government, concluded, in August 1851,
by Lieutenant Colonel S heil, Her Britannic Majesty's Minis
ter Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of
Tehran, for the search and seizure of Persian Vessels suspected
of being engaged in the Slave Trade ; approved-by Her Majes
ty s Government in the month of October 1851.
Convention concluded between Colonel S heil and A meer-e -N izam ,/or the
detention and search of Persian Vessels by British and East India
Compamfs Cruisers.
The Persian Government agrees that the ships of war of the British
Government and of the East India Company shall, in order to prevent the
chance of Negro slaves, male and female, being imported, be permitted
for the period of eleven years to search Persian merchant vessels in the
manner detailed in this document, with the exception of Persian
Government vessels, not being vessels the property of merchants, or the
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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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- 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'
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