Instructions for the guidance of her majesty's naval officers employed in the suppression of the slave trade

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T.R. Harrison, 1844 - Great Britain - 684 pages

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Page 151 - Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act...
Page 266 - The two High Contracting Parties bind themselves to pay, within the term of a year from the date of the sentence, the costs and damages which may be awarded by the Court; it being mutually agreed, that such costs and damages shall be paid by the Government of the country of which the captor shall be a subject.
Page 456 - Article of this Treaty, shall deviate in any respect from the stipulations of the said Treaty, or from the Instructions annexed to it, the Government which shall conceive itself to be wronged thereby shall be entitled to demand reparation; and in such case the Government to which such commanding officer may belong, binds itself to cause inquiry to be made into the subject of the complaint, and to inflict upon the said officer a punishment proportioned to any wilful transgression which he may be proved...
Page 590 - Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles : — ARTICLE I.
Page 407 - El Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, y Su Majestad la Reina del Reino Unido de la Gran Bretaña é Irlanda...
Page 391 - The salary of the Secretary or Registrar of the Court to be established on the Coast of Africa, shall be paid by Her Britannic Majesty...
Page 385 - Justice to be established as aforesaid, the said vessel shall, immediately after its condemnation, be broken up entirely, and shall be sold in separate parts, after having been so broken up...
Page 590 - Treaty for that purpose, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say : Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the...
Page 283 - Navies, which shall be provided with special instructions for this purpose, as hereinafter provided, may visit such merchant vessels of the two Nations, as may be suspected, upon reasonable grounds, of having slaves on board acquired by an illicit traffic...
Page 407 - Constantinople within the space of one month, or sooner if possible. In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty, and have affixed to it the seal of their arms.

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