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

Place of publication:: [London]

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Year of publication:: 1871

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98 APPENDIX TO EEPOET FROM SELECT COMMITTEE Appendix, No. 4. PAPERS handed in by the Honourable C. Vivian, 24 July 187J. Appendix, No. 4. TREATIES, &c. PERSIA. Firman issued by the Shah to Hoossein Khan, Governor of Pars. (Translation.) June 1848. To the hi^h in rank, the pillar of nobility, Hoossein Khan, the Compiroller of State Affairs and Governor of Furs, who has been exalted and supported by the distino-uished favours of his Majesty the Shah, &c., be it known, that it is a long time since a request for the abolition of the importation of negroes by sea has been made on the part of the ministers of the British Government to the ministers and authorities of this kintrdom. But their request during this long period has not met with an answer or our consintT But in consequence of the favour entertained by our august Sovereign towards the high in rank, the sincere well-wisher of the State, the chosen among Christian nobles &c. Colonel Farrant, Charge d’Aflaires of the English Government, on account of the respectful conduct and manner of proceeding which he has made manifest, and purely for the regard we entertain for him, we have accepted and complied with his request. We have ordained that hereafter that high in rank shall warn all mercliants and persons parsing to and fro to discontinue to bring negroes by sea alone, and that they shall not export or import negroes except by land, which is by no means forbidden. That high in rank will be held responsible for the fulfilment of the orders contained in this communication. Written in the month of Rejjeb 1264. June 1848. Hoossein Khan. 2\e Shah. Firman issued by the Shah to the Governor of Ispahan and Persian Arabia. (Translation.) m .1 , , , , . June 1848» lo the high in rank, the superior of generals, the esteemed of the Sovereign, Meerza JNebbee Khan, Chief of the Civil Law Court, and Governor of Ispahan, who has been honoured by the favour of the pure mind of the King of kings. be It known that at this time the high in rank, the noble and exalted, possessed of dignity, the pillar of the Christian nobles, the cream of the great men of Christendom tbp undoubted well-wisher of the State, Colonel Farrant, Charge d’Affaires of the exalted Government of England, who enjoys the unbounded favour of his Majesty the Shah whos resplendent mind is desirous to gratify him, having made a friendly request on the part^of the ministers of his exalted Government to the ministers of his Majesty the Shah that with a view to preserve the existing friendship between the two exalted^ States a decree should be issued irom the source of magnificence, the Shah, that hereafter the importation or the negro tribes by sea should be forbidden, and this traffic be abolished. ^ in consequence of this, it is ordered and ordained that, that high in rank, after peiusin- this firman, which is equal to a decree of fate, will feel it incumbent on him to is.sue positiv and strict injunctions to the whole of the dealers in slaves who trade by sea, that hence forth

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