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660 SLAVE TRADE.

require assistance from us, shall receive it accordingly. Whatever you
may require, let us know ; and peace on you.
Dated 4Ik Shaban 1261 a. ii. (corresponding with the 18th August
1S45 a. d.).
(Signed) Syud Saeed.

(True translation)
[ (Signed) A. Hamerton, Captain,
Her Majesty’s Consul, and Honorable Company’s Agent
in the Dominions of the Imaum of Muskat.

Further Agreement* concluded at Zanzibar with His Highness the
Imaum of Muskat, on the 2nd October 1845, bjj Captain Atkins
Hamerton, of the 15th Regiment Bombay N. on behalf of Her
Britannic Majesty, for the Suppression, from and after the ls£
January 1847, of the Exportation of Slaves from His Highness’
African Dominions.

Agreement between Her Majesty the Queen of tiie United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Highness Syud Saeed
bin Sultan, the Sultan of Muskat, for the termination of the export of
Slaves from the African Dominions of His Highness the Sultan of
Muskat.
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, being earnestly desirous that the export of slaves from the
African dominions of His Highness the Sultan of Muskat should cease,
and His Highness the Sultan of Muskat, in deference to the wishes of
Her Majesty and of the British nation, and in furtherance of the
dictates of humanity which have heretofore induced him to enter into
Engagements with Great Britain to restrict the export of slaves from
his dominions, being willing to put an end to that trade, and Her
Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
and His Highness the Sultan of Muskat having resolved to record with
due form and solemnity this further restriction of the export of slaves,
and Her Majesty having given due authority to Captain Hamerton, her
representative at the Court of the Sultan of Muskat, to conclude an
Agreement with His Highness accordingly, His Highness Syud Saeed
bin Sultan, for himself, his heirs and successors, and Captain Hamerton,

* Under date the 5th September 1848 an Act was passed by the British Parliament, for
giving effect to the provisions of this Agreement. A copy of this Act (Cap. CXXVIII. Anno
Undecimo et Duodecimo Victorice Reginae) is annexed.—Editor.