ON  SLAVE  TRADE  (EAST  COAST  OF  AFRICA).

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We  also  think  that,  as  the  British  Consul  enforces  his  orders  upon  British  subjects  within  Appendix,  No.  3,
the  territories  of  Zanzibar  by  the  process  and  officers  or  the  Consular  Court,  under  the  '
regulations  atiached  to  Her  Majesty’s  Order  in  Council,  he  is  entitled  to  enforce  his  orders
upon  Kutchees  by  the  same  means,  and  in  the  same  manner,  and  we  think  that  the  same
considerations  apply  to  any  other  natives  of  India  who  may  be  in  precisely  the  same  position ­
  as  the  Kutchees.
This  authority,  however,  can  in  our  opinion  only  be  exercised  over  British  subjects
and  over  Kutchees  and  other  Indian  subjects  who  are  placed  in  the  same  position  as
British  subjects,  but  not  over  those  who  have  legally  become  subjects  of  the  Sultan  of
Zanzibar.
We  recommend  that  instiactions  in  this  sense  sliould  be  sent  to  Her  Majesty’s  Consul  in
Zanzibar,  and  that  he  should  be  told  to  inform  the  Sultan  of  the  decision  of  Her  Majesty’s
Government  upon  the  question  ;  but  as  it  appears  that  his  Highness  has  been  misled  as  to
the  position  of  the  non-registering  Kutchees,  and  has  acquired  the  conviction  that  they  are
under  his  protection,  and  not  amenable  to  tlie  jurisdiction  of  the  British  Government,  we
would  recommend  that  the  measures  which  we  have  suggested  should,  if  possible,  be  put
in  force  with  his  consent  and  sanction,  and  that  he  should  be  invited  to  initiate  them,  or  to
co-operate  with  Her  Majesty’s  Consul  in  carrying  them  into  effect.

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