"أوراق تتعلق بتجارة الرقيق على الساحل الشرقي لأفريقيا والنظام المتبع لكبحها" [ظ‎‎٤‎٤] (٧٢/٢٨)

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assigned. In the absence of any other explanation, it may reasonably be assumed that
the Governor-General avoided involving the Government in any such guarantee, and
preferred making no allusion to the possibility of non-payment.
Believing that the good faith of the Indian Government is in no way involved, I
sincerely hope that this offer of a change in the existing Treaties may be accepted. To
do so would facilitate the operations of Her Majesty's ships ; it would help to maintain
order in the harbour of Zanzibar, by checking the invasion of the Arab pirates; and it
would tend to suppress the largest branch of the Slave Trade that exists.
The kindness and courtesy recently shown to the Zanzibar Envoys by Lord Clarendon
and the Duke of Argyll, lead me to hope that the circumstances of the East African
Slave Trade will receive their attention, and that they may before long take measures for
its more effectual suppression.
Anoloeizing: for the length to which this letter has run, I remain, &c.
F & 6 (Signed) T. FOWELL BUXTON.
No. 35.
Dr. Kirk to Lord Stanley.—(Received January 23, 1869.)
(No. 43.)
My Lord, Zanzibar, November 12, 1868.
I HAVE the honour to transmit, in translation from the Arabic, a copy of the Procla
mation issued by His Highness Seyd Majid relative to the currency within the dominions
of Zanzibar.
To avoid the confusion which might otherwise arise from the uncertain value of
money in so small and rival a community, I have notified that in the settlement of claims
before Her Majesty's Consular Court, after the expiry of one year from the present date,
the intrinsic value of each coin, as determined by the Bombay Mint, will be adopted.
I herewith inclose a copy of the Consular notification above referred to, of which I
have the honour to request your Lordship's approval, as required by Her Majesty's Order
in Council of the 9th August, 1866, Section 2.
I also transmit a copy of my despatch to Secretary to Government, Bombay, on this
subject.
I have, &c.
(Signed) JOHN KIRK.
Inclosure 1 in No. 35. ,
Proclamation.
(Translation.) , • j
SEYD MAJIB BIN SAIED, ro all who may see this, know that from this date, to
the end of one lunar year, the American coin, and the coins of other countries, shall pass
in our Kingdom at their present established values, and that after the end of one year
from this date all money shall circulate at its market value without price fixed by us.
Only the silver dollar, known as " shami" (or German crown) shall be our standard dollar
and unit of account throughout our Kingdom.
Written by order of the Sultan, by his servant Suliman bin Ali.
25 Rejeb, 1285 {March* 11, 1868).
Inclosure 2 in No. 35.
Notice.
WHEREAS His Highness Seyd Majid has issued a Proclamation that, from the
25th Rejeb, 1285 (11th November, 1868), until the 25th Rejeb, 1286, the various coins
now in use shall maintain their former values, but that after the 25th day of Rejeb, 128 d ,
or twelve lunar months from the present date, the German crown known as 4 shami
alone shall be the dollar of Zanzibar and standard of account. . . n
Notice is hereby given that in the settlement of claims before the British Consular
Court within the next twelve months, as expressed in His Highness' Proclamation, each
coin will be reckoned as formerly, but that after the 25th day of Rejeb, 1286, all money
* Query,—November.
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