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'Correspondence relating to the appointment of Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere's mission to Zanzibar, Nov 1872' [2v] (4/6)
The record is made up of 1 file (3 folios). It was created in Jan 1873. 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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which have so eminently characterized your long and- distinguished services in India,
and Her Majesty’s Government on their part will be prepared to receive with the con
sideration they deserve, recommendations and suggestions which you may feel it your
duty to make to them.
I am, &c.
(Signed) GRANVILLE.
Inclosure in No. 3'.
Draft of Treaty.
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HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
and His Highness Syed Bargash hen Said, Sultan of Zanzibar, being desirous to give
more complete effect to the engagements entered into by the Sultan and his predecessors
for the perpetual abolition of the Slave Trade, they have appointed as their Plenipo
tentiaries for this purpose, that is to say :—
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath, and Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India,
a Member of the Council for India ;
And His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar,
Who after having communicated to each other their respective full Powers, found;
in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :—
ARTICLE I.
The Provisions of the existing Treaties and engagements having proved ineffectual'
for preventing the export of slaves from the Territories of the Sultan of Zanzibar in
Africa, Her Majesty the Queen and His Highness, agree that from and after a date to be
hereafter fixed, the export of slaves from the coast of the mainland of Africa, whether
destined for transport from one part of the Sultan's dominions to another, or for con
veyance to foreign parts, shall entirely cease, and an} r vessel engaged in the transport
or conveyance of slaves after such date, shall be liable to seizure and cendemnation by
such persons and in such manner as the Sultan within his jurisdiction may authorize
for the purpose, and also by all such Naval and other officers or agents, and such Courts
as may be authorized for the same purpose on the part of Her Britannic Majesty.
ARTICLE II.
The Sultan engages that all public markets in his dominions for imported slaves
shall be entirely closed.
ARTICLE III.
The Sultan engages to protect, to the utmost of his power, all liberated slaves, and
to punish severely any attempt to molest them, or reduce them again to slavery.
ARTICLE IV.
Her Britannic Majesty engages that natives of Indian States under British protection
shall, from and after a date to be hereafter fixed, be prohibited from possessing slaves,
and in the meanwhile from acquiring any fresh slaves.
ARTICLE V.
The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratification shall be exchanged at
Zanzibar as soon as possible, but in any case within the space of months from the
date hereof.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have
affixed thereto their respective seals.
Done at Zanzibar this day of in the Year of Christ 187 , corre
sponding with the of the month of the Hegira 128 .
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This file contains correspondence sent from Earl Granville [the Foreign Secretary, Granville George Leveson-Gower] to Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere prior to his (Frere's) mission to Zanzibar as a Special Envoy of the Foreign Office in 1872.
The file contains a copy of a letter (folio 104) from Earl Granville to the Sultan of Zanzibar, Barghash bin Said, introducing Frere to him and outlining the purpose of his mission to Zanzibar.
The file also contains a draft of a treaty regarding the regulation of slavery that Granville requested Frere to translate into Arabic and present to the Sultans of Zanzibar and Muscat (folio 105r).
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Condition: the file is contained within a bound volume that contains a number of other files.
Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 104, and terminates at f 106, as it is part of a larger physical volume; 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 5-134; these numbers are written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
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