"معاملة العبيد واحتجازهم من قبل الكوتشيين في زنزبار" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٣] (٦٣/٥٤)

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2. The commumcation referred to in our reply will be found entered as No. 7
in the Abstract of Contents which accompanied our Despatch, No. 238, dated 22d
July 1869.
3. We would suggest that, if Her Majesty's Government see no objections, a
copy of the correspondence now forwarded, and of the previous papers, be sub
mitted to the Slavery Commission recently appointed.
We have, &c.,
(Signed) Mayo.
W. R. Mansfield.
G. N. Taylor.
H. M. Durand.
J. Strachey.
R. Temple.
J. F. Stephen.
No. 431, dated 15th October 1869.
C. Gonne , Esq., Secretary to Government of Bombay, to C. U. Aitchison , Esq.,
Officiating Secretary to Government of India, Foreign Department, with
Governor General.
Referring to Mr. Seton-Karr's letter. No, 959, dated the 13th July last, regarding
the proclamation issued by His Highness the Rao of Kutch in regard to the traffic
in slaves at Zanzibar, 1 am directed to forward, for submission to the Government
of India, the accompanying copy of a letter, and of its enclosures, No. 86/315,
dated the 16th August last, from the Acting Political Agent and Consul at
Zanzibar, reporting his proceedings consequent on the receipt of the Rao's
proclamation.
2. The letter of Mr. Churchill, No. 19/89, dated the 26th February 1869,
quoted in Dr. Kirk's 6th paragraph, was communicated to the Government of
India with my Letter, No. 143, dated 17th April last.
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No. 86/315, dated 16th August 1869.
John Kirk , Esq., Acting Political Agent, Zanzibar, to C. Gonne , Esq., Secretary
to Government of Bombay.
1 have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter in the Political
Department, No. 1763, of the 1st June, in which I am instructed to publish in
Zanzibar the proclamation lately issued by His Highness the Rao of Kutch for the
better government of his subjects and the suppression of the slave trade.
2 I have now the honour to report, for the information of the Right Honourable
the Governor in Council, that I took an early opportunity to lay a copy of this
Notification before His Highness Syed Majid.
3 His Highness at once perceived its full bearing, and felt that his plans for
ffainino- over the Indian community of Zanzibar to himself had failed.
While the natives of Kutch established in Zanzibar were under our sole pro-
tection and jurisdiction, we held the most wealthy and enterprising among the
mercantile community, and our influence was in all matters paramount.
Afterwards as a settlement of certain vexed questions connected with the slave
trade each Kutchee was allowed to elect his protecting State, and ^s aghness,
bv ho'ldinff forward the Arab privilege of buying and selling slaves to all who
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registrations at the British Agency have become almost unknown.
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