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Thursday, 6th July 1871. 
Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the whole question of 
the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa, into the increased and increasing amount of 
that traffic, the particulars of existing Treaties and Agreements with the Sultan of Zanzibar 
upon the subject, and the possibility of putting an end entirely to the traffic in slaves^ by 
sea. 
Committee nominated :— 
Mr. Russell Gurney. 
Viscount Enfield. 
Mr. Kinnaird. 
Sir John Hay. 
Sir Frederick Williams. 
Lord F. Cavendish. 
Mr. John Talbot. 
Mr. O’Conor. 
Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for Persons, Papers, and Records. 
Ordered, That Five be the Quorum of the Committee. 
Mr. Percy Wyndham. 
Mr. Kennaway. 
Mr. Robert Fowler. 
Sir Robert Anstruther. 
Mr. Crum-Ewing. 
Mr. Shaw Lefevre. 
Mr. Gilpin. 
Thursday, \^th July 1871. 
Ordered, That the Report addressed to the Earl of Clarendon by the Committee on the 
East African Slaye Trade, dated the 24th day of January 1870, presented to both Houses 
of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, and the Correspondence respecting the Slave 
Trade and other matters, from the 1st day of January to the 31st day of December 1870, 
and the recent Correspondence respecting the Slave Trade, presented to both Houses of 
Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, 1871, be referred to the Select Committee. 
Friday, A.th August 1871. 
Ordered, That the Committee have power to report their Observations, together with 
the Minutes of Evidence taken before them, to the House. 
REPORT - P- 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE p. xi 
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE P-1 
APPENDIX - - P- 89 
INDEX - - P-211