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Treaties, Farmans, enact­ Subject matter.
ments, etc. Where printed.
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Exception te be made in case of Persians
going to a place of pilgrimage and return­
ing with the same number of negroes as
mentioned in a Government passport
countersigned by a British Resident or
«
Consul.
British Order in Coun­ Bringing the above within the operation Aitchison’s. Treatie,
cil, dated 18th Au­ of the Slave Trade Act of 1873. Volume X, page 97.
gust 1882.
Declaration between Amending the Convention of 1880 for the Hertslet's —
Treaties,
Great Britain and suppression of (a) Slave Trade. Volume XV,
Turkey, dated 3rd 1069. P»g«
March 18S3.
British Order in Coun­ For the execution of the above declaration. Hertslet's Treaties,
cil, dated 23rd Au­ Volume XV, page
gust 1883. 1094.
Agreement with the Declaring all persons entering the Sultan's
Sultan of Zanzibar, dominions after November 1st of 1890
dated September shall be free, and likewise that all child­
13th, 1889. ren born after 1st January 1890 shall be
free.
Law of the Ottoman Prohibiting Slave Trade ... ...
Porte of 4th (i6th)
December 1889.
Decree of the Sultan Prohibiting under severe penalties all buy­ Aitchison's Treaties,
of Zanzibar, dated ing and selling of slaves and pronouncing Volume XI, page 253.
1st August 1890. the immediate liberation of all slaves of
owners dying without lawful children.
Decree of the Sultan Prohibiting all recruiting or enlistment of
of Zauzibar, dated soldiers, coolies and porters for service
Jith September beyond the Sultan's dominion (so as to put
1891. a stop to the drain from Zanzibar island
of labourers, etc., to the continent from
where they never returned).
Brussels Conference (See sub-section II below) ... ...
General Act, 1890
(came into force in
April 1892).
Decree of the Sultan Abolishing the legal status of slavery with­
of Zanzibar, dated in the Sultan’s domjnioos.
7th April 1897.

(ii) The Brussels Conference General Act, 1890.
11. The British Government had for long borne the greater part of the
burden of combating the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and in the
Indian Ocean, but the changed conditions which resulted from the appear­
ance of other European Powers in Africa induced Lord Salisbury, then Foreign
Secretary, to address in the autumn of 1888 an invitation to the King of the
Belgians to take the initiative in inviting a conference of the powers at Brasses
to concert measures for “and the practical suppression of the Slave Trade on t e
continent of Africa and the immediate closing of all the external markets w ic
it still supplies.” The Conference assembled in November 1889, and on the a
July 1890, a General Act was signed subject to the ratification of the vano
Governments represented.