ON SLAVE TRADE (EAST COAST OF AFRICA). 
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Appendix, No. 4, 
Treaty of Peace, Friendship, and Commerce (and Slave Trade), between Her Majesty and —— 
the Queen of Madagascar. 
Signed, in the English and Malagasy Languages, at Antananarivo, 27 June 1865. 
[Ratifications exchanged at Antananarivo, 5 July 1866.] 
(Extract). 
Article XVI.—Her Majesty the Queen of ilie United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland and Her Majesty the Queen of Madagascar hereby engage to use every means in 
their power for the suppression of piracy within the seas, straits, and rivers subject to their 
respective control or influence ; and Her Majesty the Queen of Madagascar engages not to 
grant either asylum or protection to any persons or vessels engaged in piraticarpursuits ; 
and in no case will she permit ships, slaves, or merchandise captured by pirates to be intro 
duced into her dominions, or to be exposed therein for sale. And Her Majesty the Queen 
of Madagascar concedes to Her Britannic Majesty the right of investing her officers and 
other duly constituted authorities with the power of entering at all time”, with her vessels 
of war, or other vessels duly empowered, the ports, rivers, and creeks within the dominions 
of Her M ajesty the Queen of Madagascar, in order to capture all vessels engaged in piracy 
and to seize and to reserve for the judgment of the proper authorities, all persons offendin(^ 
against the two contracting powers in this respect. 
Article XVII.—Her Britannic Majesty and Her Majesty the Queen of Madagascar 
being greatly desirous of effecting the total abolition of the trade in slaves. Her Majesty 
the Queen of Madagascar engages to do all in her power to prevent all such traffic on the 
part of her subjects, and to prohibit all persons residing within her dominions, or subject to 
her, from countenancing or taking any share in such trade. No persons from beyond sea 
shall be landed, purchased, or sold as slaves in any part of Madagascar. And Her "Majesty 
the Queen of Madagascar consents that British cruisers shall have the right of searching 
any Malagash or Arab vessels suspected of being engaged in the slave trade, whether 
under sail or at anchor in the waters of Madagascar. Her Majesty the Queen of Mada 
gascar further consents, that if any such vessels shall prove to be engaged in the slave 
trade, such vessels and their crews shall be dealt with by the cruisers of Her Britannic 
Majesty as if such persons and their vessels had been engaged in a piratical undertaking. J 
(L.S.) 
Seal of 
the Queen oj 
Madagascar 
T. C. Pakenham, 
Her Majesty's Consul for 
Madagascar. 
Painimaharavo, 
Chief Secretary of State, 
16 Vtra. 
A ndriantsitohaina, 
16 Vtra. 
Ravahatraj 
Leliibeny Andbj. 
Rafaralahihemalo, 
Leholona lehibe. 
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