A

COMPLETE COLLECTION

OF THE

TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS,

AND

RECIPROCAL REGULATIONS,

AT PRESENT SUBSISTING BETWEEN

GREAT BRITAIN AND FOREIGN POWERS,

AND OF THE

LAWS, DECREES, AND ORDERS IN COUNCIL,
CONCERNING THE SAME;

SO FAR AS THEY RELATE TO

COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION, SLAVE TRADE,
POST-OFFICE COMMUNICATIONS,
COPYRIGHT, &c.;

AND TO THE

PRIVILEGES AND INTERESTS OF THE SUBJECTS OF THE
HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES.

COMPILED FROM AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS,
BY LEWIS HERTSLET, Esq.,

LATE LIBRARIAN, AND KEEPER OF THE PAPERS, FOREIGN OFFICE.

VOL. X.

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Treaties, &c., with Native Princes and Chiefs of the West

Coast of Africa, viz. :

Bonny. Additional Articles.

Page

Commerce. Navigation.
Great Bonny, 23rd January, 1854...... 10
Trade with Eganny Country.

New Calabar, 25th January, 1854...... 12

Calabar, New. Declaration.
Bonny. Agreement. Slave Trade. Commerce.

Great Bonny, 28th January, 1854...... 13

Calabar, Old. Agreement. Slave Trade.

14

Duke Town, 2nd February, 1854..... 13 Lagos. Agreement. Commerce. 27th March, 1854. Sherbro, &c. Additional Articles. Slave Trade. Commerce. Freetown, 17th April, 1854...... 15 Congo. Agreement. Commerce. Congo River, 20th June, 1854:..... 17 Epé. Agreement. Slave Trade. Čommerce.

Epé, 28th September, 1854...... 18 New Calabar, 10th January, 1855...... Bonny. Engagements. Debts. (King Pepple.) Slave Trade.

Calabar, New. Additional Articles. Commerce.

19

Bonny, January, 1855.... 20

Calabar, Old. Additional Articles. Twin Children.

Cameroons (Acqua).

Old Calabar, 18th January, 1855...... 21 Declaration. Commerce.

River Cameroons, 30th January, 1855...... 21 Cameroons (Bell). Engagement. Commerce.

Cameroons.

River Cameroons, 1st February, 1855...... 22 Engagements. Commerce.

River Cameroons, 2nd February, 1855...... 23

92960

Bonny, September, 1855...... 25

Bonny. Additional Article. Natives and Refugees.

Bonny, 12th September, 1855...... 26

Calabar, New. Additional Article. Commerce.

New Calabar, 15th September, 1855...... 26 Ambrizette. Engagement. Slave Trade. Commerce. Ambrizette, 17th September, 1855...... 27 Calabar, Old. (Creek Town.) Engagements. Debts.

17th October, 1855...... 28

Calabar, Old. (Duke Town.) Engagement. Debts.

Cameroons. Agreement. Friendship.

19th October, 1855.... 29

River Cameroons, 14th January, 1856...... 30

Cameroons. Treaty. Trade Regulations.

Calabar, Old. Treaty.

River Cameroons, 14th January, 1856...... 30
Human Sacrifices. Twin Children.

Bonny. Additional Articles.

Old Town, 21st January, 1856...... 33
Commerce, &c.

Bonny River, 7th April, 1856......683

Tintimar. Declaration. Slave Trade.

Calabar, Old.

Calabar, Old.

Calabar, Old.

Tintimar, 17th May, 1856......685 (Duke Town.) Agreement. Friendship.

Agreement. Commerce, &c.

17th June, 1856......685

Old Calabar River, 19th September, 1856......686 (Duke Town.) Court of Justice.

.....690

Old Calabar River, 20th September, 1856...... Calabar, New. Declaration. Slave Trade. New Calabar, 10th November, 1856......690 Bento (Brass) River. Agreement. Commerce, &c.

Brass River, 17th November, 1856......691 Kinsembo. Engagement. Slave Trade.

Kinsembo, 13th July, 1857.... 1091

Act of Parliament. Slave Trade Offences... 12th July, 1819. ....158 Ordinance. Alien Children. Sierra Leone.

Treaties, &c., with Native Chiefs of Central Africa,

viz.:

.....

3rd September, 1852......702 Wurno, 2nd May, 1853......704 .1853. ...704

Bornoo. Treaty. Commerce.
Sokoto. Treaty. Commerce.
Gando. Engagement. Commerce.
Auelimiden. Engagement. Peace. Friendship
Tedemeket. Engagement. Friendship
Timbuctoo. Engagement. Peace. Friendship

AFRICA. (South Coast.)

Order in Council. Foreign Coasting Ships. Cape of Good

Hope...Windsor, 7th December, 1855......405

Warrant. Duties of Postage. Cape of Good Hope.

London, 20th April, 1857......708

Order in Council. Copyright.

Natal.

Osborne, 16th May, 1857......711

AFRICA. (East Coast.)

Treaties, with Native Chiefs of the Eastern Coast of Africa,

Mohilla. Treaty. Slave Trade.

viz. :

Fumbani, 16th September, 1854...... 34