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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [676] (720/733)
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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676
SLAVE TRADE.
Commissioners of the Admiralty shall deem a proper price for the
same; or, if not so taken, shall be broken up and demolished, and the
materials thereof shall be publicly sold in separate paits, and the
proceeds thereof shall be paid to such person or persons as the Com
missioners of Her Majesty 's Treasury may appoint to receive the same.
VI. And be it enacted, That where any ship or vessel employed or
engaged in such illicit traffic in slaves, in violation of the said Agree
ments, shall be seized by any ship or vessel belonging to Her Majesty
or the East India Company, and afterwards condemned, there shall be
paid to the captors the net proceeds to which Her Majesty is entitled,
the same to be distributed in the manner hereinafter directed for the
distribution of bounties on slaves taken on board the said vessels.
VII. And be it enacted, That there shall be paid to the commander,
officers, and crews of Her Majesty's ships, or the commandei, officers,
aftd crews of the ships of the East India Company, a bounty of five
pounds for every man, woman, and child slave seized and found on
board any ship or vessel taken and condemned in pursuance of the
provisions of the said Agreements and of this Act, such bounty to be
issued and paid by order from the Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury, and to be distributed to and amongst the captors aforesaid,
in such manner and proportions as Her Majesty shall think fit to order
by any
Order in Council
A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
made or to be made, or by any Proclamation
for that purpose.
VIII. And be it enacted, That where any ship or vessel which shall
have been seized and condemned under the provisions of the said
Agreements shall have been or shall be demolished, and the materials
thereof publicly sold in separate parts, as well as her cargo, there shall
be paid to the commanders, officers, and crews of Her Majesty's ships,
or of those of the East India Company, in addition to the amount of the
proceeds 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 condemned under the pro
visions of the said Agreements, 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
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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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- Open Government Licence