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Thursday,  6th  July  1871.

Ordered,  That  a  Select  Committee  be  appointed  to  inquire  into  the  whole  question  of
the  Slave  Trade  on  the  East  Coast  of  Africa,  into  the  increased  and  increasing  amount  of
that  traffic,  the  particulars  of  existing  Treaties  and  Agreements  with  the  Sultan  of  Zanzibar
upon  the  subject,  and  the  possibility  of  putting  an  end  entirely  to  the  traffic  in  slaves^  by
sea.
Committee  nominated  :—
Mr.  Russell  Gurney.
Viscount  Enfield.
Mr.  Kinnaird.
Sir  John  Hay.
Sir  Frederick  Williams.
Lord  F.  Cavendish.
Mr.  John  Talbot.
Mr.  O’Conor.
Ordered,  That  the  Committee  have  power  to  send  for  Persons,  Papers,  and  Records.
Ordered,  That  Five  be  the  Quorum  of  the  Committee.

Mr.  Percy  Wyndham.
Mr.  Kennaway.
Mr.  Robert  Fowler.
Sir  Robert  Anstruther.
Mr.  Crum-Ewing.
Mr.  Shaw  Lefevre.
Mr.  Gilpin.

Thursday,  \^th  July  1871.

Ordered,  That  the  Report  addressed  to  the  Earl  of  Clarendon  by  the  Committee  on  the
East  African  Slaye  Trade,  dated  the  24th  day  of  January  1870,  presented  to  both  Houses
of  Parliament  by  Command  of  Her  Majesty,  and  the  Correspondence  respecting  the  Slave
Trade  and  other  matters,  from  the  1st  day  of  January  to  the  31st  day  of  December  1870,
and  the  recent  Correspondence  respecting  the  Slave  Trade,  presented  to  both  Houses  of
Parliament  by  Command  of  Her  Majesty,  1871,  be  referred  to  the  Select  Committee.

Friday,  A.th  August  1871.

Ordered,  That  the  Committee  have  power  to  report  their  Observations,  together  with
the  Minutes  of  Evidence  taken  before  them,  to  the  House.

REPORT  -  P-PROCEEDINGS
  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  p.  xi
MINUTES  OF  EVIDENCE  P-1
APPENDIX  -  -  P-  89
INDEX  -  -  P-211