Report from the Select Committee on Slave Trade (East Coast of Africa); together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index

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Title:: Report from the Select Committee on Slave Trade (East Coast of Africa); together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index

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Year of publication:: 1871

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; 99 ON SLAVE TRADE (EAST COAST OF AFRICA). forth by sea alone the importation and exportation of negroes into the Persian dominions is entirely forbidden, but not by land. Not a single individual will be permitted to bring negroes by sea without being subjected to severe punishment. That high in rank must in this matter give peremptory orders throughout his Govern ment, and not be remiss. Written in the month of Rejjeb 1264. June 1848. Meerza Nebbee Khan. The Shah. Convention for the Detention and Search of Persian Vessels by British and East India Company’s Cruisers. (Translation.) Shevval 1267 (August 1851). The Persian Government agrees that the ships of war of the British Government and of the East India Company shall, in order to prevent the chance of negro slaves, male and female, being imported, be permitted, for the period of 11 years, to search Persian mer chant vessels, in the manner detailed in this document, with the exception of Persian Government vessels, not being vessels the propeity of meicbants or the property of Persian subjects; with those Government vessels there is tobe no interference whatsoever. The Persian Govern rent agrees that in no manner whatever shall any negro slave be imported in the vessels e , tOe Persian Government. The agreement is this : I. That in giving this permission to search mercantile vessels and those of subjects, the search shall, from the first to the last, be effected with the co-operation, intervention, and knowledge of Persian officers, who are to be on board vessels of the English Govern ment. II. The merchant vessels shall not be detained longer than is necessary to effect ihe seanh for slaves. If slaves should be found in any of those vessels, the British authorities are to take possession of them and carry them away, without detaining or causing them (that is, the people of the ship importing slaves) any other damage besides that of depriving them of the slaves. The vessel itself (in which the slaves have been imported) shall, by the co-operation and knowledge of the officers of the Persian Government who are on board of the British cruisers, be delivered to the authorities of the Persian ports, who are there on the part of the Persian Government, and the authorities of this (the Persian) Govern ment are to punish and fine in a manner suitable to the crime he has committed, the owner of that slaving vessel who has acted in contravention of the commands of his Majesty the King cf Persia, by importing slaves. The British ships of war are not in any manner to interfere with the Persian trading vessels, without the co-operatiou of the Persian Government officers : but the Persian Government officers also must not, on their part, be remiss in the duty committed to them. This convention is to be in force for a period of 11 years, and after these 11 years have expired and the stipulated period has elapsed, if the Persian vessels shall be interfered with for even a single day beyond the 11 years, it will be opposed to the course of friendship with the Persian Government and to the maintenance of her rights, and this Government will make a demand for satisfaction. III. If the slaves who have been heretofore in Persia, and are now there, should from the present date and henceforward wish to proceed by sea on a pilgrimage to Mecca or to India, or travel by sea, they must, with the knowledge of the British liesident in Bushire, piocute a passport from the officer at the head of the Persian passport office in Bushire, and no exceptions shall thereafter be taken to any slave holding a passport. The pas?^port (regulation) obtained with the knowledge of the British sident at Bushire, is, like the other stipulations written above, to be for a period of 11 years. This agreement of [the right of] search, and the appointment of the Persian Govern ment officers (to be on board the British cruisers) will first come in force on the 1st of Rebbee-ool-evvel, 1268 = 1 January 1852. From the date of this document to the above date, there is no right of search. The articles written in this document have, from first to last, been agreed to by both parties, and confirmed by the Ministers of both Governments, and nothing is to be done in contravention thereof. Written in the month of Shevval 1267 (August 1851). Justin Shell, Her Britannic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia. Meerza 'Tehkee Khan, Ameer-i-Nizara of the Persian Government. N 2 Appendix, No. 4. 0.116.

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