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 introduced
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 Madagascar
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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