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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' [19] (27/126)
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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19
Constant, supervision.
A proclamation to be published in the Arabic and Guzreathi on the ist January
of every year setting forth the inability of the British protected subjects and
all natives of India to buy or hold slaves.
4th. — i he above duties to be exercised at Zanzibar, and over 1 ,000 miles of Coast
will require an augmentation of the Consular establishment.
5. The following orders were then passed and proclamations issued with
regard to British Indian subjects :—
The following Resolution of the Government of India is published for general infor
mation :—
No. 1288.
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT.
P olitical.
Simla, the ijtk June 1873.
t R- e SOLUTION.— Read the following letters, dated 15th of May 1873, from Her Majes
ty s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India,
and to the
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.
at Zanzibar, respectively:—
"To the Duke of Argyll, Kt.,
4< My Lord Duke,— The reports of Sir ^1. Bartle Frere having established beyond
all question that great numbers of Her Majesty's Indian subjects are more or less directly
implicated in the Slave Trade, it has been my duty, in obedience to Her Majesty's Com
mands, to send to Her Majesty's Consul at Zanzibar the instructions, of which I enclose a
copy, directing him, under the powers vested in him by
Order in Council
A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
, to adopt the most
decided measures for the apprehension and punishment of any subjects of Her Majesty
directly or indirectly engaged in the Slave Trade.
" In pursuance of this instruction Her Majesty's Consul may be expected to send to
Bombay for trial, before the High Court of that
Presidency
The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent.
, subjects of Her Majesty who
may be brought before him charged with such offences ; and 1 have the honour to request
that Your Grace will communicate a copy of my instruction to the Viceroy of India, to the
intent that His Excellency may apprise the Governor of Bombay thereof, and direct him
to co-operate in carrying out the determination of Her Majesty to spare no pains to relieve
the British name from the stigma which now unfortunately attaches to it by reason of
the large participation of British subjects in the East African Slave Trade.
" It will be for the Viceroy of India to consider whether, as it is supposed that the
British subjects carrying on this trade on the East Coast of Africa are in communication
with parties in Her Majesty's Indian Dominions, some public notice such as Her Majesty's
Consul is directed to issue might not conveniently be published in India.
" I have, &c.,
" (Signed) GRANVILLE."
" To Dr. Kirk,
" sir,— The reports made by Sir Bartle Frere of the results of his investigation
into the state of the Slave Trade in the Dominions of the Sultan of Zanzibar establish
the complicity of British subjects in that nefarious traffic, and impose upon Her Majesty's
Government the obligation to use the utmost endeavours to relieve the British name from
the scandal and disgrace which their unlawful practices bring upon it.
I have, therefore, to direct your particular attention to the 16th and 23rd Clauses
of the
Order in Council
A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
of the 4th of November 1867*, by which you are empowered to
deal with British subjects engaged in, or being accessory to, the purchase or sale of
slaves, or having slaves illegally in their possession j and I have to enjoin you to cause
all such British subjects, against whom you can obtain sufficient evidence as having been
engaged in such practices, to be brought before you, and thereupon to deal with them
according to the powers vested in you by the
Order in Council
A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
.
<f I send you, herewith, copies of the Acts of Parliament now in force, defining the
crime of slave-dealing and the punishment to which British subjects engaged in it are
made liable.
" The crime itself is of so serious a character, and the punishments to which persons
convicted of it are amenable are so severe, that it may probably be desirable in the majori
ty of cases to remit the parties accused for trial in the High Court of Bombay; but, in
regard to this, much must be left to your discretion.
• Note that the
Order in Council
A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
in force in Zanzibar dominions at this time was that of 9th August 18661
while the
Order in Council
A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
of 9th November 1867 applies only to Maskat dominions (Aitchison's Treaties, Volume
XI, page CLV).
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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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- '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'
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- front, front-i, 1a:1f, 1:25, 35:43, 46:111, 114:116, back-i, back
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