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ARTICLE LXXIII.
The Signatory Powers having undertaken to
communicate to each other all information useful
for the repression of the Slave Trade, the Govern
ments whom the present Chapter concerns shall
periodically exchange with the other Governments
statistical data, relating to slaves intercepted and
liberated, and to the legistative and administrative
measures which have been taken for suppressing
the Slave 1 vade.
Chapter v.—Institutions intended to insure
the execution of the general act.
^ I. Of the International Maritime Office.
ARTICLE LXXIV.
f In accordance with the provisions of Article
I XXVII, an International Office is instituted at
Zanzibar, in which each of the Signatory Powers
may be represented by a Delegate.
ARTICLE LXXV.
The Office shall be constituted as soon as three
powers have appointed their Representatives.
It shall draw up Regulations fixing the mode of
exercising its functions. These Regulations shall
immediately be submitted for the approval of those
Signatory Powers who shall have notified their
intention of being represented in this Office. They
shall decide as to their intention within the shortest
possible time.
ARTICLE LXXVI.
The expenses of this institution shall be divided
in equal parts among the Signatory Powers men
tioned in the preceding Article.
ARTICLE LXXVII.
The object of the Office at Zanzibar shall be to
centralize all documents and information of a nature
to facilitate the repression of the Slave Trade in
the maritime zone. For this purpose the Signatory
Powers undertake to forward within the shortest
possible time:—
1. The documents specified in Article XLI.
2. Summaries of the Reports and copies of the
Minutes referred to in Article XLVIII.
3. The list of the territorial or Consular autho
rities and special Delegates competent to take
action as regards vessels seized according to the
terms of Article XLIX.
4. Copies of Judgments and condemnations in
accordance with Article LVIII.
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5. All information which might lead to the
discovery of persons engaged in the Slave Trade in
the above-mentioned zone.
ARTICLE LXXVIII.
The archives of the Office shall always be open
to the naval officers of the Signatory Powers autho
rized to act within the limits of the zone defined in
Article XXI, as well as to the territorial or judicial
authorities, and to Consuls specially appointed
thereto by their Governments.
The Office shall supply to foreign officers and
agents authorized to consult its archives translations
into a European language of documents written in
an Oriental language. It shall make the com
munications provided for in Article XLVIII.
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ARTICLE LXXIX.
Auxiliary Offices in communication with the
Office at Zanzibar may be established in certain
parts of the zone, on agreement beforehand between
the interested Powers.
They shall be composed of Delegates of these
Powers, and established in conformity with Articles
LXXV, LXXVI, and LXXVIII.
The documents and information specified in Ar
ticle LXXVII, in so far as relating to a part of the
zone specially concerned, shall be sent to them di
rect by the territorial and Consular authorities of
the region in question without this dispensing the
latter from the duty of communicating the same
to the Zanzibar Head Office, as provided for by the
same Article.
ARTICLE LXXX.
The Office at Zanzibar shall draw up in the two
first months of every year a Report upon its own
operations, and those of the auxiliary Offices, during
the past twelve months.
§ II. Of the Exchange between the Governments
of Documents and Information relating to the
Slave Trade.
ARTICLE LXXXI.
The Powers shall communicate to each other to
the fullest extent and in the briefest delay which
they shall consider possible :—
1. The texts of the Laws and Regulations of
the Administration, whether existing or enacted,
in application of the Present General Act.
2. Statistical information concerning the Slave
Trade, slaves arrested and liberated, and the traffic
in fire-arms, ammunition, and alcoholic liquors.
ARTICLE LXXXII.
The exchange of these documents, and informa
tion concerning them shall be centralized in a spe
cial office attached to the Foreign Office in Brus
sels.
ARTICLE LXXXIII.
The Office at Zanzibar shall forward to it every
year the Report mentioned in Article LXXX on
its operations during the past year, and upon those
of the auxiliary Offices which shall have been esta
blished in accordance with Article LXXIX.
ARTICLE LXXXIV.
The documents and information shall be collected
and published periodically, and addressed to an the
Signatory Powers. This publication shall be ac
companied every year by an analytical Table of the
legislative, administrative, and statistical documents
mentioned in Articles LXXXI and LXXXIII.
ARTICLE LXXXV.
The Office expenses, as well as those incurred in
correspondence, translation, and printing, shall l)e
shared by all the Signatory Powers, and shall be
recovered through the agency of the Department
of the Foreign Office at Brussels.
§ III, Of the Protection of Liberated Slaves.
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