6. Bey Cantah and his successors shall keep all roads open, and in particular shall make, maintain, and keep in proper order and repair a good road from west to east through the said territory and marked A B on the plan annexed hereto, the said road to be made within 12 months from the date of this Treaty.

7. Good order shall be maintained by Bey Cantah and his successors and Chiefs throughout the territory, and all criminals, whether British subjects or others, shall be surrendered to the Agent of the Government of Sierra Leone whenever a demand. shall be made for that purpose, in order that they shall be tried and punished according to English law.

8. The buying, selling, or bartering of slaves is forbidden, and shall be by Bey Cantah and his successors and Chiefs strictly prohibited; nor shall the passage of slaves through the ceded territory be allowed.

9. Human sacrifices shall be prevented and for ever forbidden by Bey Cantah and his successors and Chiefs.

10. Bey Cantah and his successors the Kings of Quiah shall be entitled to receive a stipend of 50l. per annum from the Government of Sierra Leone during his and their good behaviour, and so long as the conditions of this Treaty are faithfully observed, but no longer.

11. No person shall be molested or disturbed in the exercise or enjoyment of any right acquired under the said Treaty of April 2, 1861, and the Kings and Chiefs shall be responsible for the protection of British subjects resident in the territory on their payment of the rents for their farms and factories now paid and payable at the date of this Treaty.

12. British subjects are hereby guaranteed the right of free and unrestricted ligitimate traffic within the said territory, and all rights and privileges heretofore enjoyed by them are hereby recognised and confirmed, subject to the usual rents and

customs.

13. All complaints against British subjects must be made to the nearest resident English magistrate or to the Governor of Freetown, in order that justice may be impartially done between the parties.

14. British subjects are strictly prohibited from breaking the country laws, or from interfering in any way with the manners, customs, or proceedings of the people in the ceded territory.

15. No customs or other dues or payments shall be levied or collected upon any boats or canoes coming down the river to or going up from Sierra Leone for the purpose of trade, and all merchandise imported into the ceded territory in vessels, boats, or canoes clearing from the harbour of Sierra Leone shall be * See Vol. 12. Page 80.

exempted from the payment of any duty whatever; and in like manner the productions of the said territory imported into Sierra Leone shall be exempted from all import or other duties.

16. All missionaries and ministers of religion shall be allowed the free exercise of their calling, and be protected therein without the payment of rents or dues of any kind.

17. Bey Cantah and his successors shall not carry war into any of the neighbouring territories; nor shall he or they allow war to take place in the Quiah country without immediate notification thereof to the Governor of Sierra Leone.

18. This Treaty shall be proclaimed throughout the settlement of Sierra Leone immediately after the execution thereof, and a duplicate shall be delivered to Bey Cantah.

His

mark.

J. J. KENDALL, Administrator of the Government of the
West Africa Settlements.

ALEXANDER BEY CANTAH.

Signed and sealed at Benkia, in Quiah, this 29th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, 1872, and in the 35th year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in the Their presence of:

ANSUMANNA KONKOH, for Pa Nain Bannah.

ALIMAMA LAHIE BUNDOO.*
SORIE TUGOSHIE.

DOUDOO BUNDOO.*

FILLAH.

marks. SANTIG BAILLEE MUODO.*

E. GRAHAM ALSTON, Queen's Advocate.
P. SHEPPARD, Capt. 2nd W. I. Regt.
J. P. MCEWEN, R.N., Comd. Sherbro.

SORI CUNDITO.*

C. PARKINSON, Lieut. R.N., H.M.C.S. Sherbro.
H. N. POLLARD, Lt. 2nd W. I. Regt.

ELMAN G. SARGENT, Lieut. 2nd W. I. Regt.

A. T. ELLIOT, Staff Surgeon.

JOHN MCLEENAN, Chief Engineer, Sherbro.

HARRY GOUGH, Agent Company of African Merchants, L.D.

JON. R. PRATT, Firm of W. H. Pratt & Sons.

J. B. CUMMINGS.

THOS. GEO. LAWSON, Govt. Interpreter.

TREATY with Imperay and Bagroo. Peace.

Tasso, February 21, 1872.

Navigation, &c.

ENTERED into on board H.M.C.S.S. Sherbro, at Tasso, in the Bagroo river, this 21st day of February, 1872, between his Excellency John Jennings Kendall, Administrator of the *Signed in the Arabic language.

Government of the West Africa Settlements, and Repre-
sentative of Her Majesty the Queen of England on the
West Coast of Africa, on the one part, and the Chiefs of the
Imperay and Bagroo countries on the other part.

WHEREAS an unhappy war has long existed in the above districts and has continued up to this time, whereby much damage has been done to the trade and social welfare of the above-mentioned districts, and of British subjects trading therein, and whose interest it is to live together in peace and unity.

It is hereby agreed by the above-mentioned Chiefs that there shall be peace and friendship between them all hereafter and for ever.

The following Articles, being fully discussed and understood, are agreed to:

ART. I. Peace is hereby declared to be restored and promised to be preserved for ever between the Bagroo Chiefs and the Imperay Chiefs, and it is now signified by the shaking of hands as well as by each of them signing this Treaty.

II. The tranquillity of their respective countries and the free navigation of the rivers belonging to them for the purposes of trade are to be strictly maintained by the Imperay and Bagroo Chiefs.

III. Lives and properties of British subjects and others are to be thoroughly protected.

IV. All labourers and others of whatever nation employed by British subjects in their respective territories for any service whatever are to be protected and allowed to pursue their avocations unmolested; but, at the same time, it is to be distinctly understood that this protection is not to give the said labourers or other strangers any political influence, right of territory, or interference in the countries in which they may be residing, their manners, customs, or affairs, against the will of their lawful Chiefs.

V. No British subjects or any other strangers are to be permitted to interfere with the rights, privileges, or customs of the countries they may be residing in, out of British jurisdiction.

VI. All complaints against British subjects or disputes between them and the people of the countries they may be residing in, must be referred to the nearest British Agent for the information of the Governor of Sierra Leone, who will see justice done.

VII. Should unfortunately any disputes arise between any of the Chiefs subscribing to this Treaty, which they are unable to settle amicably between themselves, the said disputes must be referred to the Governor of Sierra Leone, whose decision between the disputants must be considered as final.

VIII. Gbanyah, though a stranger, in consideration of his long and good friendship with the British Government, is to be permitted to become a party to this Treaty.

IX. No stockaded towns are to be permitted to be built in British territory without permission from the British Government, and those stockades now in existence are to be removed without delay.

X. In consideration of the due observance of this Treaty, a yearly stipend will be allowed to the principal Chiefs of each country subscribing to it, which will be stopped from any one failing to observe it. In addition to which stipends they will classed as the friends and allies of the British Government for

ever.

XI. This Treaty is not to interfere with any former Treaty in existence between the British Government and the Bagroo and Imperay Chiefs.

In proof of our true and sincere desire for peace, we subscribe our names to this Treaty, a copy of which will be retained by each party.

Their

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marks.

SOMANK, King of Bagroo, on behalf of Hamper Rango.

REGBAFRI, Principal Lady of Manho.

marks. J. J. KENDALL, Administrator of the Government of
the West Africa Settlements.

J. CRAIG LOGGIE, J.P., Acting Commandant of British
Sherbro.

NATHAN HARRIS.

GEO. NATH. JOWETT.

ENGAGEMENT of Chiefs of Imperay and Bagroo. Outrages on British Woodcutters. February 22, 1872.

WE, the Undersigned, Chiefs of the Imperay and Bagroo countries, do hereby hold ourselves responsible in accordance with the Treaty entered into yesterday between ourselves and the British Government, to use our best endeavours to apprehend the perpetrators of the outrage committed on the wood

cutters employed by Mr. J. M. Harris, on the part of the British Government, about (8) eight miles from Manho, in the territory of Beah Boom, in the month of January last, and to bring them to the Commandant at Bonthe, who will concert with the Chief or Chiefs of the country or countries to which they may belong as to the best punishment to be inflicted upon them.

ORDINANCE of the Legislature of the Settlement of Lagos, for the Naturalization of Aliens.

[No. 9.]

[July 7, 1873.] WHEREAS it is expedient to make general provision for the naturalization of aliens within the settlement of Lagos.

Be it therefore enacted, by the Administrator and Legislative Council of the Settlement of Lagos, as follows:

I. Every alien now residing, or who may hereafter come to reside in the settlement with intent to settle therein, and who shall have actually resided therein for a continuous period of one year at least, shall be entitled to procure himself to be naturalized in manner hereinafter described.

II. Every such alien desirous of becoming naturalized, as aforesaid, shall procure a declaration of residence and character to be made and subscribed by some British subject resident in this settlement, in the Form marked A in the schedule hereto annexed, and shall also make and subscribe a declaration of residence in the Form marked B in the said schedule hereto annexed.

III. Every such declaration may be taken, made, and subscribed before any magistrate, and shall be delivered to such alien, with the attestation at the foot thereof, signed by such magistrate.

IV. It shall be lawful for the said alien to present all the said documents properly subscribed and filled up, as aforesaid, on the first day of any general sittings of the Court of Civil and Criminal Justice, and all such documents shall then be read aloud in open Court, and it shall be lawful for the judge thereof to order all the said documents and proceedings to be entered as of record in the said Court, and thereupon such alien shall (after having taken the oath of allegiance in the Form C in the