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Inclosure 4 in No. 15.
The Secretary to Government, Bombay, to the Foreign Secretary, India.
^ r ' t AA/r j- i , , Bombay Castle, January 22, 1868.
AM directed to forward, for the information of the Government of India, the
accompanying copy of a letter, and of its inclosure, dated the 29th November last, from the
-Political Agent at Zanzibar, regarding the establishment of a Vice-Admiralty Court at
Zanzibar. J
I have, &c.
(Signed) W. WEDDERBURN.
Inclosure 5 in No. 15.
The Government of Bombay to Sir S. Northcote.
(Ext ract.) September 7, 1868.
i ^ i, reterence to the papers forwarded with our despatch dated the 29th February
last, we have the honour to transmit herewith copy of a letter, and of its inclosures, from
the Pohhcal Agent at Zanzibar, dated the 3rd March following, connected with the
establishment of a Vice-Admiralty Court at that place.
Inclosure 6 in No. 15.
Mr. Churchill to the Secretary to Government, Bombay.
Sir
r tr a "VTr fi-. v, + 'i. ^ r- Zanzibar, M^arch 3, 1868.
1 HAVE the honour to transmit to you, for the information of the Right Honourable
the Governor in Council, a copy of a despatch, together with its inclosure, that I have
latterly received from Her Majesty s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
relative to the establishment of a \ ice-Admiralty Court at Zanzibar, and the erroneous
view taken by the late officiating Political Agent of the matter.
I have, &c,
(Signed) HENRY A. CHURCHILL.
Inclosure 7 in No. 15.
Lord Stanley to Mr. Churchill
n ' j uwv u A 1 . j . . Foreign Office, October 10, 1867.
/ H Ay ® had under my consideration, m consultation with the Queen's Advocate
the doubts raised by Mr. Seward in his despatch of the 30th May last, as to the competency
f. f. ' i 1 Ke-Admiralty Court to adjudicate, under present Treaty arrangements
within the ZanzibOT terntonties, in the matter of confiscating vessels the prdpertv of subjects
of the Sultan of Zanzibar, which nave been seized by ships of Her Majesty's navy on
suspicion of being engaged in tne Slave Trade within the Sultan's dominions; and I have
to state to you, that Mr. Seward s doubts on this subject were not well founded and that
any decision he might have given as Judge of Her Majesty's Vicc-Admiralty Court in the
territories of Zanzibar, would have been perfectly valid. j ui me
I inclose for your information, an extract of a letter from Colonel Playfair, to whom
Mr, Seward s despatch was also referred. wnom
I am, &c.
(Signed) STANLEY,
Inclosure 8 in No. 15.
^ ^ Colonel Playfair to Mr. Churchill
rr- VT E r< : adDr - Seward's despatch which accompanied your note of the lOth ultimo
hensibde to'me to exerclse Vloe - Adm "- a % J ^diction at Zanzibar, are quite incompra:
hensible to me.
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