Zur Geschichte und Theorie des Bergregals und der Bergbaufreiheit

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Identifikator:: 101034126X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-20183

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Arndt, Adolf http://d-nb.info/gnd/117662690

Title:: Zur Geschichte und Theorie des Bergregals und der Bergbaufreiheit

Edition:: Zweite verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage

Place of publication:: Freiburg im Breisgau

Publisher:: J. Bielefelds Verlag

Year of publication:: 1916

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (288 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Die Urkunden, betreffend das Metallregal bis zum Jahre 1300

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ON SLAVE TRADE (EAST COAST OF AFRICA). IX Zanzibar, and this, therefore, i? the extent of the legalised trade, and the value to the Sultan of Zanzibar at the present rate of tax would not exceed 4,000 /. annually Your Committee, however, do not believe that the Sultan of Zanzibar would be ultimately a loser by the abolition of the trade ; on the contrary, it was given in evidence that already the revenues of the Sultan, derived from the rapidly increasing trade of Zanzibar, and from his private estates in India are ample to maintain the Government of his State, independently of the sum received from the slave trade ; while the witnesses generally concur in stating that were the slave trade abolished, and a more ready means of communication afforded between Bombay, Aden, and Zanzibar, the already flourishing trade of that State would be rapidly developed. Material assistance to this development might be afforded by a line of mail steamers to Zanzibar. Should the Sultan be willing to enter into a new treaty, the Committee recommend that it contain provisions for the entire abandonment of the slave trade, the closing of the Zanzibar and Kilwa slave markets, the punishment of any of the subjects of Zanzibar in any w ay engaged in the slave trade, permission to the British Govern ment to station Vice Consuls at Kilwa, Dar Selam, and Lamoo ; and on the part of the British Government an agreement to settle, under full and stringent measures for their protection, a certain number of negroes released from slavery by Her Majesty’s cruisers. The Committee concur in the opinion expressed by the witnesses as to the necessity of an increase in the consular establishment ; and inasmuch as the staff of that establishment would he largely employed in the suppression of the slave trade, they think that the expense should be equally shared by the Indian and Imperial Government. The Committee are of opinion that there should be for a time an increase, as recommended in the Report of the Committee on the Slave Trade, addressed to the Earl of Clarendon, as well as by the evidence of the naval officers, in the strength of the naval squadron ; and that it should be well supplied with steam launches to perform the inshore duties, which necessarily must be conducted in boats. The Committee feel that the disposal of the squadron must be left to the discretion of the commanding officers, and they would recommend that advantage should be taken of their experience as to the class of vessels to be employed ; and that they should be provided, as far as possible, with all recorded information on the subject. The Committee also recommend that some effort be made to provide the squadron with efficient and trustworthy interpreters. It has been stated in evidence, that some time must elapse after the measures above referred to have been put in force before the slave trade could be stopped ; and assuming that an efficient squadron is maintained, the Committee see that the disposal of the liberated slaves becomes a matter of large importance. They have recommended the liberation at Zanzibar of adult slaves on the assump tion that the Sidtan would enter into a new treaty ; should he, however, oppose the formation of a depot there, it will be necessary to seek some other locality for that purpose, and no other place combines the advantages possessed by the Seychelles Islands. It was given in evidence that the Church Missionary Society are willing to enter into an arrangement for the superintendence and education of the children at the Seychelles, similar to that entered into with the Government with respect to liberated children at Sierra Leone, the Mauritius, and at Nassuck in Bombay. In urging the necessity of retaining in this service trained and experienced men,^ the Committee consider that this principle most strongly applies to the Political Agency at Zanzibar. So complicated are our political relations at pre sent with the Sultan, and so difficult will be the task of dealing with him, that they do not hesitate to advise that the services should be retained of the present acting Political Agent, bearing in mind his long and tried experience of Africa, its climate, its slave-trade difficulties, his knowledge of the Sultan, and his acti- 420. b vity

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