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 posi 
tion 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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