'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' [25] (33/126)
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, Farmans, enact
ments, etc.
Treaty between Her
Majesty and the
Sultan of Zanzibar
supplementary to
the treaty for the
suppression of the
slave trade of June
5th, 1873—signed
July 14th, 1^75.
39 and 40 Vict., C. 46,
The Slave Trade Act,
1876.
Proclamation by the
Sultan of Zanzibar,
18th April 1876.
Ditto.
42 and 43 Vict. C. 38^
The Slave Trade
(East African Courts
Act, 1879).
Treaty between Great
Britain and Turkey,
25th January 1880.
Explaining some doubts that arose as to
the interpretation of the treaty of 1873,
about domestic slaves on board vessels
in attendance on or in discharge of the
legitimate business of their masters, etc.
An act for more effectually punishing
offences against the laws relating to the
slave trade.
Providing that a subject of Her Majesty
ox any Prince or State in India in alli
ance -with Her Majesty committing
offences under sections 367, 370 and
371 of the Indian Penal Code upon the
high seas or in any part of Asia or Africa
to be specified by an
Order in Council
A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
,
shall be dealt with as if the same had
been committed in any place within British
India in which he may be or may not be
found
Prohibiting conveyance of slaves by land
from Kilwa.
Prohibiting arrival and fitting out of slave
caravans.
An act to amend the Slave Trade [East
African Courts) Act, 1&73. — Providing
that in the Slave Trade (East African
Courts) Act, 1873, the term " East Afri
can Court" shall mean the Vice-Admiral
ty Court at Aden or any of Her Majesty's
Consular Officers within the dominions
of the sovereigns of Zanzibar, Muscat
and Madagascar on whom jurisdiction in
relation to slave trade has been conferred
by an
Order in Council
A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
.
Extending jurisdiction of such Courts to
cases of British vessels seized in pursu
ance of a slave treaty by Commander
of any ship belonging to the foreign state
party to such treaty for the suppression
of African slave trade.
Order in Council
A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
, dated Bringing the Slave Trdae Treaty with the
26th May 1881. 1 Porte, dated 25th January i 58 o , within
the operation of the Slave Trade Act of
1873.
Convention between
Great Britain and
Persia, 1882 (March).
In order to prevent the chance of negro
slaves being imported into Persia author-
isiner British cruizers to detain and search
o
Persian vessels suspected to De or to
have engaged on the voyage in slave trade
and to take such vessels as contain negro
slaves before Persian authorities for
trial.
Where printed.
Aitchison's Treaties,
VolumeXl. page 341.
Aitchison's Treaties,
Volume XI, page 241.
Ditto, page 242.
Aitchison^s Treaties,
Volume XI, page ig
^embodied
Order in
dated 26th
1881).
in the
Council,
August
Aitchison's Treaties,
Volume XI, page 19.
Aitchison's Treaties,
Volume X, page 95.
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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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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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