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SLAVE TRADE. 661
on behalf of the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, her heirs and successors, have agreed upon and concluded
the following Articles :—
Article I.
His Highness the Sultan of Muskat hereby engages to prohibit,
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under the severest penalties, the export of slaves from his African -
dominions, and to issue orders to his ofliccrs to prevent and suppress-
such trade.
Article II. -
His Highness the Sultan of Muskat further engages to prohibit?
under the severest penalties, the importation of slaves from any part of
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Africa into his possessions in Asia; and to use his utmost influence
with all the Chiefs of Arabia, the Bed Sea, and the Persian Gulf, in like
manner to prevent the introduction of .slaves from Africa into their res-
pcclive territories.
Article III.
His Highness the Sultan of Muskat grants to the ships of Her
Majesty’s Navy, as well as to those of the East India Company, per­ i
mission to seize and confiscate any vessels, the property of His Highness
or of his subjects, carrying on Slave Trade, excepting only such as arc
engaged in the transport of slaves from one port to another of his own
dominions in Africa, between the port of JLamoo to the north, and its
dependencies, the northern limit of which is the north point of Kaghocx
Island, in 1° 57' (one degree and fifty-seven minutes) south latitude,
and the port of Kcelwa to the south, and its dependencies, the southern
limit of which is the Souga Munara, or Pagoda Point, in 9° 2' (nine
degrees and two minutes) south latitude, including the islands of
Zanzibar, Pemba, and Monfea.
Article IV.
This Agreement to commence and have effect from the 1st day of
January 1347 (one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven) of the year
of Christ, and the loth day of the month of Mohurum 1263 (twelve
hundred and sixty-three) of the Hijree.
Done at Zanzibar, this 2nd (second) dag. of October 1S45 (one thousand
eight hundred and forty-five) of the year of Christ, and 29tli day of
Rumzan 1261 (twelve hundred and sixty-one) of the Hijree.
(Signed) Syud Saeed.

Seal of His High­
ness the Iinaum of
Muskat.
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