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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [660] (704/733)
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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SLAVE TRADE.
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require assistance from us, shall receive it accordingly. Whatever you
may require, let us know ; and peace on yon.
Dated Ath Shaban 1261 a. h. (corresponding
1845 a. d.).
(Signed)
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(True translation)
(Signed) A. H amerton , Captain,
Her Majesty's Consul, and Honorable Company's Agent
in the Dominions of the Imaum of Muskat
with the 18^/i August
S yud S aeed.
Further Agreement* concluded at Zanzibar with His Highness the
I maum of M uskat, on the l 2nd October 1845, by Captain A tkins
H amerton, of the loth Regiment Bomhay N. on behalf of Her
Britannic Majesty, for the Suppression, from and after the \st
January 1847, of the Exportation of Slaves from His Highness
African Dominions.
Agreement between Her Majesty the Q ueen of the U nited K ingdom
of G reat B ritain and I reland, and His Highness S yud S aeed
bin S ultan, the Sultan of Muskat, for the termination of the export of
Slaves from the African Dominions of His Highness the Sultan of
Muskat.
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, being earnestly desirous that the export of slaves from the
African dominions of His Highness the Sultan of Muskat should cease,
and His Highness the Sultan of Muskat, in deference to the wishes of
Her Majesty and of the British nation, and in furtherance of the
dictates of humanity which have heretofore induced him to enter into
Engagements with Great Britain to restrict the export of slaves from
his dominions, being willing to put an «nd to that trade, and Her
Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
and His Highness the Sultan of Muskat having resolved to record with
due form and solemnity this further restriction of the export of slaves,
and Her Majesty having given due authority to Captain Hamerton, her
representative at the Court of the Saltan of Muskat, to conclude an
Agreement with His Highness accordingly. His Highness Syud Saeed
bin Sultan, for himself, his heirs and successors, and Captain Hamerton,
* Under date the 5tli September 1848 an Act was passed by the British Parliament, for
giving effect to the provisions of this Agreement. A copy of this Act (Cap. CXXVIII. Anno
Undechno et Duodecimo Victoria? Reginae) is annexed.— Editor,
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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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- 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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