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'Précis on slave trade in the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, 1873-1905 (With a Retrospect into previous history from 1852) By J A Saldanha BA, LL B' [6] (14/126)
The record is made up of 1 volume (63 folios). It was created in 23 Jun 1906. 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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Treaties, Fartnans, enact
ments, etc.
Subject matter.
Where printed.
Treaty between Her
Majesty and the Sul
tan of Zanzibar, 5th
June 1873.
36 and 37 Vict., C. 59,
The Slave Trade
(East African Courts
Act, 1873.
36 and 37 Vict., C. 88,
The Slave Trade Act,
1873.
Proclamation of the
Government of
India, Foreign De
partment, dated 13th
June 1873.
Agreement of the Sul
tan of Maskat, datec
1st July 1873.
(a) Closing all slave markets.
(3) Engaging to protect liberated slaves.
(4) Natives of Indian States under British
protection prohibited from possessing
slaves and from acquiring fresh slaves.
The 2nd, 3rd and 4th articles of this treaty
are the same as those corresponding
artcles in the Maskat Ireaty of 1873*
In the 1st article the Sultan and Her Majes
ty agree that all export of slaves
from the coast of the mainland of Africa,
whether for transport from one part of
the Sultan's dominions to another or for
conveyance to Sarap countries ^ shall
cease. Any vessels engaged in the
transport of slaves are rendered liable to
seizure, etc. (as in the Maskat Treaty)t
N,B.—No words in the Zanzibar Treaty as
in the Maskat Treaty " all persons here-
aftar entering the Sultan's dominions and
dependencies shall be free."
An act for regulating and extending the
jurisdiction in matters connected with
the slave trade of the Vice-Admiralty
Court at Aden and of Her Majesty's
Consuls under Treaties with the Sove
reigns of Zanzibar, Maskat and Mada-
gascar and under future Treaties (5tb
August 1873).
An act for consolidating with amendments
the act for carrying into effect Treaties
for the mote effectual suppression of
the slave trade (5th August 1873).
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Providing subject to treaties concluded
and hereafter to be concluded—-
{a) Seizure of slave ships.
(5) Jurisdiction of courts in regard to
slave vessels, slaves, goods and
effects.
(c) Disposal of slaves and vessels.
(d) Bounties, etc.
Notifying that all persons violating the
provisions of the Indian Penal Code, sec
tions 367, 370 and 371 (read with sec
tions 107 to 120) and the English Statute
Law relating to Slave Trade as set forth
in 5 Geo. IV, C. 113, and 627 Vict., C. 98,
shall forfeit all claims to British protec
tion and shall be liable to all the penulties
of the law provided in that behalf.
Making the subjects of Native States in
India committing offences in Maskat
dominions amenable to the jurisdiction
of the British
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
and Consul
just like British subjects.
Aitchison's Treaties,
Volume XI, page 339.
Collection of Statutes
relating to India, Vol
ume II.
Ditto.
See page
Precis.
of this
Aitchison's Treaties,
Volume XI, page 78
(see also page of
this Precis).
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This volume is a summary of events, treaties and correspondence about the suppression of slavery and the slave trade in the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , curated by Jerome Anthony Saldanha, and printed in Simla in June 1906.
The volume is marked as secret and divided into chapters:
- Measures for the suppression of slavery and slave trade in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , up to 1873 (ff 5-7);
- Measures against traffic in slaves by Natives of India (ff 8-16);General measures taken for the suppression of Slave Trade from 1874 to 1905 (ff 16v-22);
- Anti-Slave Trade Operations (ff 22v-30);
- Runaway slaves at Gwadur (ff 31-34);
- Trade in Baluchi slaves from Mekran to the Arab coast (ff 34-35);
- Reception of fugitive slaves on board Her Majesty's ships of war and other British vessels (ff 35v-38);
- Grant of protection to fugitive slaves on the Coast (ff 39-40);
- Some questions of practice of courts (ff 41-45);
- Miscellaneous questions and facts (ff 45v-48.
In Appendix, Reports on Slave Trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 1852-1859 (folios 59-61).
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- 1 volume (63 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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