IOR/F/4/2066/94850

This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; Captain Samuel Hennell, the Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the fifth in a series of six items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2066/94846, IOR/F/4/2066/94847, IOR/F/4/2066/94848, IOR/F/4/2066/94849, and IOR/F/4/2066/94851).

The item concerns:

• Methods of eliminating the trade in kidnapped children from India
• A discussion of the speed of the approach to take towards eliminating the trade in enslaved people, particularly as far as it concerns the Imaum of Muscat [Imam of Muscat, Sayyid Sa’id bin Sultan Al Bu Sa’id]
• The difficulty of translating the Act of Parliament (10 August 1842) giving the Governors and Officers of the East India Company the same powers as those Governors and Officers of Her Majesty’s Colonies
• The applicability of the Act to Sawarrut Warree [Sawantwadi]
• Punishments for those who imported enslaved people into the Gulf, and the accountability of shaikhs for the actions of their subjects.

The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 73, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4548, [Season 18]44’, ‘Collection No 6 of No 27’.