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ORDER of the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, bringing the Indian Contract and Limitation Acts into Operation in Zanzibar. London, March 5, 1890.

IN pursuance of the Zanzibar Order in Council of 1884,* it is hereby ordered that the enactments of the Governor-General of India in Council hereinafter specified as respectively amended or represented for the time being by any other enactments of the Governor-General of India in Council for the time being in force shall come into operation in Zanzibar on and after the dates hereinafter specified, that is to say:

1. The Indian Contract Act, 1872, on and after the, 1st January, 1891.

2. The Indian Limitation Act, 1877, on and after the 1st January, 1892.

This Order is to be published in Zanzibar in the same manner as Rules of Procedure in force under the said Order in Council, and is to be published in India in "The Gazette of India" at such times as Her Majesty's Consul-General for Zanzibar appoints, and is to have effect for the purposes of publication as from the date hereof.

SALISBURY, one of Her Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State.

Foreign Office, March 5, 1890.

AGREEMENT between the Sultan of Zanzibar and Colonel EuanSmith, Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General, placing the Dominions of Zanzibar under the Protection of Great Britain. Signed at Zanzibar, June 14, 1890.

ART. I. His Highness Seyyid Ali-bin-Saïd, the Sultan aforesaid, accepts freely and unreservedly for himself, his subjects, and his dominions, the Protectorate of Great Britain, to commence from any date which may hereafter be fixed by Her Majesty's Government.

II. His Highness Seyyid Ali-bin-Saïd further understands and agrees that all his relations, of whatever sort, with foreign Powers, shall be conducted under the sole advice and through the channel of Her Majesty's Government.

III. As regards that portion of His Highness the Sultan's dominions lying between the Umba and Rovuma Rivers, His * See Vol. 17. Page 1093.

Published at Zanzibar, April 24, 1890; and re-published for general information in "The Gazette of India," July 5, 1890, July 12, 1890, July 19, 1890, and July 26, 1890.

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Highness Seyyid Ali agrees to abide by any equitable arrange ment that may be come to by Her Majesty's Government with Germany regarding its retention by the Germans, and leaves his just interests in this question entirely to the care of Her Majesty's Government.

IV. Colonel C. B. Euan-Smith, Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General aforesaid, hereby guarantees, on behalf of Her Majesty's Government, the maintenance of His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar's Throne to himself, Seyyid Ali, and also to his successors.

V. Colonel C. B. Euan-Smith further guarantees to His Highness Seyyid Ali, on behalf of Her Majesty's Government, the right of nominating his own successor to the Throne, subject to the approval of Her Majesty's Government.

VI. His Highness Seyyid Ali hereby declares that the above Agreement shall be for ever binding upon himself, his heirs and

successors.

Done at Zanzibar, in duplicate English and duplicate Arabic copies, on the 14th day of June, in the year 1890.

(Signature in Arabic.)

Translation: ("This is true. Written by Ali-bin-Said with

his own hand.")

Witness to the signature of His Highness the Sultan:
MOHAMMED-BIN-SAEF.

SALIM-BIN-ASSAN.

(L.S.) C. B. EUAN-SMITH, Colonel, Her Britannic Majesty's Agent and Consul-General.

Witness to the signature of Colonel Euan-Smith:

ERNEST J. L. BERKELEY,

Her Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul.

DECREE of the Sultan of Zanzibar, against Slavery and the Slave Trade. Zanzibar, August 1, 1890.

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

THE following Decree is published by us, Seyyid Ali-binSaïd, Sultan of Zanzibar, and is to be made known to, and to be obeyed by, all our subjects within our dominions from this date.

1. We hereby confirm all former Decrees and Ordinances

made by our predecessors against slavery and the Slave Trade, and declare that, whether such Decrees have hitherto been put in force or not, they shall for the future be binding on ourselves and on our subjects.

2. We declare that, subject to the conditions stated below, all slaves lawfully possessed on this date by our subjects shall remain with their owners as at present. Their status shall be unchanged.

3. We absolutely prohibit from this date all exchange, sale, or purchase of slaves, domestic or otherwise. There shall be no more traffic whatever in slaves of any description. Any houses heretofore kept for traffic in domestic slaves by slavebrokers shall be for ever closed, and any person found acting as a broker for the exchange or sale of slaves shall be liable, under our orders, to severe punishment, and to be deported from our dominions. Any Arab or other of our subjects hereafter found exchanging, purchasing, obtaining, or selling domestic or other slaves shall be liable under our orders to severe punishment, to deportation, and the forfeiture of all his slaves. Any house in which traffic of any kind in any description of slave may take place shall be forfeited.

4. Slaves may be inherited at the death of their owner onry by the lawful children of the deceased. If the owner leaves no such children, his slaves shall, ipso facto, become free on the death of their owner.

5. Any Arab or other of our subjects who shall habitually ill-treat his slaves, or shall be found in the possession of raw slaves, shall be liable under our orders to severe punishment, and, in flagrant cases of cruelty to the forfeiture of all his slaves.

6. Such of our subjects as may marry persons subject to British jurisdiction, as well as the issue of all such marriages, are hereby disabled from holding slaves, and all slaves of such of our subjects as are already so married are now declared to be free.

7. All our subjects who, once slaves, have been freed by British authority, or who have long since been freed by persons subject to British jurisdiction, are hereby disabled from holding slaves, and all slaves of such persons are now declared to be free.

All slaves who, after the date of this Decree, may lawfully obtain their freedom are for ever disqualified from holding slaves under pain of severe punishment.

8. Every slave shall be entitled, as a right, at any time henceforth to purchase his freedom at a just and reasonable tariff to be fixed by ourselves and our Arab subjects. The purchase-money on our order shall be paid by the slaye to his owner before a Cadi, who shall at once furnish the slave with a

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paper of freedom, and such freed slaves shall receive our special protection against ill-treatment. This protection shall also be specially extended to all slaves who may gain their freedom under any of the provisions of this Decree.

9. From the date of this Decree every slave shall have the same rights as any of our other subjects who are not slaves to bring and prosecute any complaints or claims before our Cadis. Given under our hand and seal this 15th day of El Hej, 1307 (1st August, A.D. 1890), at Zanzibar.

(L.S.) ALI-BIN-SAÏD, Sultan of Zanzibar.

NOTIFICATION of the British Protectorate over the Dominions of the Sultan of Zanzibar. London, November 4, 1890.*

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that in pursuance of an Agreement with the Sultan of Zanzibar, the Dominions of His Highness are placed under the Protectorate of Her Britannic Majesty.

The Protectorate comprises the territory recognized as belonging to His Highness in the Articles of Agreement be tween Great Britain and Germany, recorded in the note from His Excellency Count Hatzfeldt of the 29th October, 1886, and in the note from the Earl of Iddesleigh of the 1st November following, with the exception of the territory lying to the south of the River Umba, of the Island of Mafia, and of the districts of Brava, Merka, Magadisho, and Warsheikh.

* "London Gazette," November 4, 1890. + June 14, 1890. See Page 1201. See Vol. 17. Page 1174.

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