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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [659] (703/733)
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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85
SLA.VE TRADE.
659
Article III.
As the selling of males and females, whether grown up or young,
who are "Hoor," or free, is contrary to the Mahomedan religion, and
whereas the Somalees are included in the " Hoor," or free, I do hereby
agree that the sale of males and females, whether young or old, of the
Somalee Tribe, shall be considered as piracy, and that four months from
this date, all those of my people convicted of being concerned in such
an act shall be punished as pirates.
Dated 10th Shuwal 1255 a. h. (corresponding with the 17th December
1839 a. d.).
Seal of His
Highness the
Imaum of
Muskat.
(True translation)
(Signed) S. Hennell,
Resident,
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
Memorandum.— Under date the ISth August 1845, His Highness the
Imaum of Muskat addressed the following letter to Captain Hamerton,
relative to an omission ivhich had been discovered to exist in Article
IV.* of the Arabic version of the Treaty concluded by His Highness ivith
Captain Moresby in September 1822.
A. C.
Your excellent letter has reached, and your friend understood its
contents. You say that you have received a letter from the mighty
Government, containing orders to you to bring to our notice that in
Article IV. of the Treaty we concluded with Captain Moresby in the
year 1822, it is mentioned in the English version that it is incumbent
on us, and our heirs and governors, to assist in apprehending English
subjects engaged in the Slave Trade, but that such is not mentioned in
the Arabic version (translation) of the Treaty, My friend, not
considering it necessary to alter the Treaty, nevertheless we consi
der it is incumbent on us, our heirs, and governors, that we should
assist to apprehend English subjects who may be engaged in the
Slave Trade.
Therefore, whoever shall be accredited from the Government, and
* Vide page 655 of this Selection.
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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).
- Extent and format
- 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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- '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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