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freedom of exportation and importation ; prohibition of monopolies and
exclusive privileges; exceptions, valuation, and sale of British goods;
passage of merchandize in the event of war with a third party ; vessels
in distress, and shipwrecks; suppression of the slave trade; vessels of
war of the East India Company allowed to give full force and effect to
the stipulations of this treaty, in the same way as vessels of war of Her
Britannic Majesty ; commerce and navigation within the limits of the
East India Company’s Charter.
The ratifications of this treaty were exchanged by Lieutenant Colonel
Ilennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, on behalf of Her Majesty, at
Muskat, on the 22nd July 1840.
On the 2nd of October 1845, a further Treaty was concluded at
Zanzibar, with His Highness the Jmaum of Muskat, by Captain
Atkins Ilamerton, 15th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry, Her Bri­
tannic Majesty’s Consul, and Honorable Company’s Agent, on the part
of Her Majesty, for the suppression of the exportation of slaves, from and
after the 1st January 1847, from the African possessions of His Highness.
By this treaty the Imaum engaged to prohibit the export of slaves
from his African dominions, to prevent and suppress the trade, to
prohibit the importation of slaves into his Arabian possessions from
any part of Africa, and to use his influence with the Chiefs of the Red
Sea, Arabia, and the Persian Gulf, to prohibit and prevent the impor­
tation of slaves from Africa into their respective territories; and also
granted permission to the ships of Her Majesty’s of the Honorable
Company’s Navy, to seize and confiscate all vessels, the property
of His Highness, or of his subjects, carying on the slave trade,
excepting such as are engaged in the transport of slaves from one
port to another in his own dominions in Africa, between certain
limits provided for in the treaty.
On the 5th September 1848, an Act was passed by the Parliament of
Great Britain, for giving effect to the provisions of this treaty.

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