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and East India Company to seize and confiscate ^Omani vessels engaged
in the slave trade, except such as might be found carrying slaves between
certain ports on the eastern coast of Africa.
Act of 15 th Provision was made for giving effect to the Agreement thus con-
Septejnber eluded by an Act (11 and 1^ Vic 0 Cap. CXXVIII), dated the 15th
1848. September 1848, which authorised British officers to take action in
accordance with its terms, and which regulated, at the same time the
rewards that the captors of slave vessels under the Agreement should
receive.
Masqat Order A Masqat Order in Council of 4ith November 1867 empowered the
in Council, British Consul at Masqat himself to try, with the aid of assessors, any
K th i8fi7 Vem " British subject accused of engaging in, or being accessory, to the pur-
chase or sale of slaves, or of having slaves illegally in his possession, or
otherwise to send such British subject to India for trial by the High
Court of Bombay.
On the 2£nd of May 1849, Sohar and the district around it
eaeement 0 " forming at that time a principality independent of Masqat, an Engage-
•22nd May ment was obtained from Saiyid Saif-bin -Hamud, the chief of Sohai,
1849. by which he bound himself to prohibit, with effect from the ^Ist June
1849, the exportation of slaves from the coast of Africa and elsewhere
in vessels belonging to himself or his subjects and agreed to the deten
tion and search by British cruisers of such vessels, when suspected ot
taking part in the slave trade, and to their confiscation in event ot the
suspicion being found justified.
Act of 9th As in the case of the Agreement of 1845 with the Saiyid of 'Omau,
May 1853. legislative action was taken in Great Britain to give effect to the t-n-
o-ao-ement of the Sohar chief ; this was done by the passing of an Act
(16 and 17 Vic., Cap. XVI), dated 9th May 1853, of which the provi
sions resembled those of the Act of 15th September 1848.
Treaty of Saiyid Sa'id, in whose reign all the agreements as yet mentioned
April 14th were formed, ruled over both Zanzibar and 'Oman ; but atter his deatn
1873 " in 1856 these two territorial divisions became separate Sultanates. With
the Sultan of Zanzibar we are hardly concerned, except to remark
that the provision in the Agreement of 1845 which permitted the ship
ment of slaves between ports in East Africa was abused m such a way
as to cover a continuance of the slave trade between Kast Africa an
the Persian Gulf, and that this circumstance eventually ^necpsitatccl
revision of the Agreement of 1845. Colonel Higby, the Political g
in Zanzibar, reported in 1861 that the Agreement had been a dead
letter since its execution, and that m 1860-61 no less than 10,000 p,
had been exported northwards from East Africa. A change was real y ^
required in the Agreements with the Sultan of Zanzibar on y; _
advantage was taken of the mission of Sir Bartle Frere to Zanzibarm |( ^
1873 to obtain from the Sultan of'Oman also a Treaty moie app
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priate to the altered circumstances of that ruler than the Agreem n
1845. On the 12th of April 187S Sir B. Frere and his staff armed at
Masqat, where, the obstacles to an understanding being less cottsidera T,
than at Zanzibar, matters were quickly adjusted with the assistan
Colonel Pelly, the Political Resident; and on the 14th of April a new
Treaty was signed. By this instrument the importation of slaves tro
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