'The Slave Trade of East Africa.' [‎40] (49/108)

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" There are no means of ascertaining the exact numbers intended for
the foreign market, but different witnesses have estimated the
numbers annually needed to maintain the supply of slave labour
in the dominion of Zanzibar at from 1,700 to 4,000, which would
leave at least 16,000 as the number destined for the foreign slave
market. The treaty stipulations and agreements with the Sultans of
Muscat and Zanzibar have been carried into effect by various Acts of
Parliament and Orders in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. , which contain provision for the
establishment of courts of adjudication for the trial of vessels captured
as slavers at Zanzibar.
" The Government have proposed to enter into a new treaty with
the Sultan of Zanzibar to the following effect:—
'1. To limit the shipment of slaves from the mainland to one
point only on the African coast, namely, Dar Selam, and to prohibit
entirely their export from any other places.
4 2. To make Zanzibar the only port for the reception of slaves
shipped from Dar Selam, but with liberty to transport from thence to
Pemba and Mombaza only ; imports of slaves to any other place,
or which have not come through Zanzibar, should be declared illegal,
and liable to seizure.
i 3. That the number of slaves exported from Dar Selam to
Zanzibar, and thence to Pemba and Mombaza, shall be strictly
limited to the actual requirements of the inhabitants of those places,
to be annually settled by mutual consent between the Sultan and the
British Agent, such number to be gradually decreased, so as to cease
altogether within a certain time.
1 4. That every vessel engaged in the transport of slaves shall be
liable to capture, unless she is provided with a proper pass from
the Sultan, which shall be valid only for one voyage, and with
distinctive marks on her hull and sails; a heavy penalty being
attached to any piracy of these passes or marks.
' 5. That the public slave markets at Zanzibar shall be closed.
< 6. That the Sultan shall engage, from the date of the treaty,
to punish severely any of his subjects who may be proved to be
concerned, directly or indirectly, in the slave trade > and especially
any attempt to molest or interfere with a liberated slave.
< 7. That the Kutchees, and other natives of Indian states under
British protection, shall be forb-idden, after a date to be fixed by
the Grovernment of India, to possess slaves, and that in the meantime
they shall be prevented from acquiring any fresh slaves.'
i 4 Lastly, ' The treaty shall contain a stipulation providing for
the eventual and entire prohibition of the export of slaves from
the mainland."
" The Government have sent out instructions to press this proposed
treaty upon the present Sultan; but pending the enquiry of this
Committee nothing more has been done.
" The principal means used to check the trade have been the employ
ment of some vessels of Her Majesty's ISTavy upon the East Indian