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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [666] (710/733)
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.
Where no Slaves are on
board a Ship seized and
condemned, an additional
Bounty to be paid on Ton
nage.
,ho«e of the East India Company, in addition to the amonnt of the
nroceeds of such sale, as hereinbefore mentioned, a further bounty on
the tonnage of such ship or vessel at the rate of thirty shillings for every
ton of such tonnage. *
IX And be it enacted. That where any ship or vessel having no
slaves on board shall have been seized and con
demned under the provisions of the said Agree
ment, there shall be paid to the commanders,
officers, and crews of Her Majesty's ships, or of
those of the East India Company, an additional
bounty upon the tonnage of such ship or vessel,
at the rate of four pounds for every ton; and the tonnage of all such
vessels shall be ascertained according to the mode of ascertaining the
admeasurement of British vessels, either by the principal officer of the
customs at the port where the vessel may be at the time of condemna
tion, or in default thereof by the best evidence which can be obtained:
Provided always, that in every case in which any ship or vessel shall
be seized with slaves on board, in which 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 shall
be paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain 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 with 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
Laptors entitled to 1 i • i i rm
Bounty to give proof of tonnage of the ship or vessel so seized ana con-
Tonnage. demned 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 hey may deem satisfactory.
Bounties to be paid out
of the Consolidated Fund.
Bounties not liable to
payment of Fees.
*
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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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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