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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [677] (721/733)
The record is made up of 1 volume (364 folios). It was created in 1856. 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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H
SLAVE TRADE.
677
be seized with slaves on board in wliich the bounty calculated upon the
number of slaves shall be less than the bounty calculated upon the
tonnage, the commanders of Her Majesty's ships, or of those of the
East India Company, making the seizure, may elect to take the bounty
calculated according to tonnage, instead of the bounty which would be
payable upon the number of slaves on board.
X. And be it enacted. That all bounties payable under this Act shaU
be paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great
Biitain and Ireland, to the commanders, officers, and crews of Her
Majesty's ships, and of the ships of the East India Company, and such
bounties shall be issued and paid by order from the Commissioners
of Her Majesty's Treasury.
XI. And be it enacted. That the said bounty, as also all bounties
payable under any of the Acts for the abolition or suppression of the Slave
Trade, shall not hereafter be charged witlt Treasury fees or Exchequer
fees of any description.
XII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That in order to entitle the
captors to receive the said bounty money, the tonnage of the ship or
vessel so seized and condemned shall be proved to the Commissioners
of Her Majesty's Treasury, by producing a copy, duly certified, of the
sentence or decree of condemnation, or by such documentary or other
evidence as they may deem satisfactory.
XIII. Provided always, and be it enacted. That in order to entitle the
captors to receive the said bounty money on slaves, the number of men,
women, and children so taken, delivered over, and condemned, shall be
proved to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury by" producing
a copy, duly certified, of the sentence or decree of condemnation, and
also a certificate under the hand of the proper officer or officers, military
or civil, who may be appointed to receive such slaves.
XIV. And be it enacted. That where any slaves, or persons treated
as slaves, shall be seized on board any ship or vessel taken and con
demned in pursuance of the said Agreements, and of this Act, but who
shall not have been delivered over in consequence of death, sickness,
or other inevitable circumstance, it shall be lawful for the said Commis
sioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, if to their discretion it shall seem
meet, to direct payment of one moiety of the bounty which would have
been due in each case respectively, if the said slaves had been delivered
over.
XV. Provided also, and be it enacted. That any party or parties
claiming any benefit by way of bounty under the provisions of this Act^
or of any share of the proceeds of any vessel confiscated in pursuance
of the provisions of the aforesaid Agreements, may resort to the High
Court of Admiralty for the purpose of obtaining the judgment of the
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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).
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- 1 volume (364 folios)
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The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.
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Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.
The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.
Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.
The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.
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- 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1:28, 1:48, 50:688, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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