IOR/F/4/2014/89998

This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. It is the third in a series of seven items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2014/89996, 89997, 89999, 90000, 90001, and 90002). The principal correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Robertson, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.

The item concerns:

• The difference between Robertson’s and the original translations of the third article of the treaty agreed in May 1839 and ratified in July 1840, about the punishment for selling Soomallees [Somalis]
• Robertson’s proposed procedure for dealing with ships suspected of carrying enslaved Soomallees, which was rejected by the Government of Bombay
• The interpretation of the treaty by Samuel Hennell, at the time Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, made in April 1838 and its bearing on the treaty of 1839.

The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 666, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4079, [Season 18]43’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.