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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [654] (698/733)
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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G54
SLAVE TRADE.
Agents, and others charged with the suppression of the Slave Trade
by English subjects ; such Consuls, Agents, or others, are to receive
the assistance, on application, of His Highness the Imaum, or his Lieute
nant Governor, or others, for the apprehension and detention of all Eng
lish subjects who may attempt the traffic.
Article V.
That no individual may plead ignorance of the limit within which the
Slave Trade is confined, the Imaum to agree that all vessels under His
Highness' flag, commanded or owned by any of his subjects, found
trading in slaves to the southward of the parallel of Cape Delgado, His
Highness' most southern possession in Africa, or to the eastward of a
line drawn from that cape, past the east point of the Isle Socotra, on to
the Persian shore, shall be liable to seizure and confiscation by any
of His Britannic Majesty's cruisers, or officers of customs, or others
deputed by any of His Britannic Majesty's governors, and dealt with
the same as if such ship or vessel seized was navigated under the
English flag.
Article VI.
His Highness the Imaum must engage to publish, in all the domi
nions and dependencies of his Government, the present Treaty, and
to consider it equally binding on them all; and finally to agree that
the Treaty is provisional until ratified and confirmed by His Majesty's
Ministers on the part of the King of Great Britain, which ratification
is to be fowarded without loss of time to His Highness the Imaum;
nevertheless the Iiealy is to be carried into full effect from the present
date.
(Signed) Fairfax Moresby,
Captain, His Majesty's Ship Menai.
Muskat, 29th August 1822.
I) anslation of an Arabic Paper prepared by Mis Highness the
Imaum of Muskat, and signed and sealed by His Highness on
the 1th September 1822, purporting to contain, on the one side,
the substance of each of the above Requisitions made on His
Highness by Captain Moresby, and on the other. His Highness
Assent to the same.
Requisitions made on His High
ness the Imaum of Muskat, by
Captain Moresby, of His Majes-
ly s ship Menai, Commissioner,
Answers under His Highness
the Imaum of Muskat's Hand and
Seal, to the Requisitions made by
Captain Moresby, of His Majes-
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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)
- Arrangement
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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- IOR/R/15/1/732
- Title
- '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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