In faith of which we have hereunto set our hands and seals, at Abbeokuta, 5th January, 1852.

ART. I. That Sierra Leone Africans, natives of whatsoever country, are not to be permitted to be kidnapped.

II. That we will not attempt to hinder the advance of missionaries, merchants, or others into the interior.

In faith of which we have hereunto set our hands and seals, at Abbeokuta, 5th January, 1852.

SIGNED AND SEALED BY THE SAME PARTIES.

(22.)—OATH taken by the Chiefs of Gallinas and Solyman. Mina, January 28, 1850.

WE, the Undersigned, Chiefs of Gallinas and Solyman, considering that our mutual security and the good of our country require that we should be united in the closest friendship, did this day meet together at Mina, in Gallinas River, and in presence of Commander Hugh Dunlop, the senior officer of Her Britannic Majesty's ships on the Northern Division of the West Coast of Africa, King Robin, Chief of Manna River, Mr. Charles Hall, Acting Paymaster and Purser of Her Majesty's sloop "Alert," and Mr. William Parker, interpreter to the said senior officer, and other witnesses, solemnly swear, (according to the forms and customs of our country) that we, the Chiefs of Gallinas and Solyman, should unite together in the closest friendship, and that no quarrel, war, or strife should arise amongst us in consequence of our having banished the slave-dealers from our country, but on the contrary, that we should assist each other against any enemy who may attack or injure any of us, and that we should never again allow slave-dealers to reside in our country, or ourselves in any way engage in the Slave Trade, or permit that trade to be carried on, directly or indirectly, in our respective territories, and we consider this solemn oath and engagement to be binding to our heirs and successors.

We hereby set our signatures to this Document, that Her Majesty the Queen of England may thus be informed of our

sincere intention for ever to abandon the Slave Trade and to banish it from our territory.

Done at Mina, 28th January, 1850.

Chiefs of PRINCE MANNA.

Gallinas. JOHN SHAPHA ROGERS.
For his father, LUCINI ROGERS.

JAMES ROGERS.

JAMES WESTERN ROGERS.

JAN CUBAH.

Chief of Solyman, SHAPHA PAMAH.

Witnesses: HUGH DUNLOP, Commander and Senior Officer.
C. E. P. HALL, Paymaster and Purser, Her Majesty's
ship" Alert," &c.

KING GEORGE ROBIN, Chief of Manna River.
JAMES FREEMEN, Chief of Sugury.

(23.)-TREATY with the Chiefs of Gallinas, Solyman, Manna, Sugury, and Cape Mount. Off Gallinas, Feb. 2, 1850. BETWEEN Hugh Dunlop, Esquire, Commander of Her Britannic Majesty's ship "Alert," and Senior Officer of the Northern Division of Her Majesty's ships and vessels on the West Coast of Africa on behalf of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Chiefs of Gallinas, Solyman, Manna, Sugury, and Cape Mount.

WHEREAS at the desire and through the mediation of the said Hugh Dunlop, Esquire, Commander of Her Britannic Majesty's sloop "Alert," &c., the said Chiefs of Gallinas, Solyman, Manna, Sugury, and Cape Mount have consented to put an end to all war and strife between each other, and to conclude a Treaty of peace and friendship upon the terms and conditions hereinafter mentioned:

ART. I. All war is at end, and there shall be peace and friendship between the said Chiefs of Gallinas, Solyman, Manna, Sugury, and Cape Mount, and between each and every of them.

II. All those people taken during the war who are now prisoners in the territories of any of the said chiefs shall be immediately released and sent to the chief to whose country they belong, and from the time of signing this Treaty they shall be considered as friends and allies, and treated with the same kindness in every way as the natives of the country in which they have been prisoners, until they can be sent back to their own country.

III. The Chiefs parties hereto agree to remain at peace with each other, and to refer any dispute that may arise between them to a general meeting of all the chiefs or their successors, when the cause of the difference will be talked over in solemn palaver, and justice done to the injured party, according to the laws and customs of the country. Should any chief refuse to submit to the decision of the whole body of chiefs met to consider the cause of difference or dispute in question, it shall be referred to the senior British naval officer on this station, or to the Governor of Sierra

Leone, who shall arbitrate in the matter, and his or their decision shall be final and binding on all parties.

The Governor of Sierra Leone and the senior naval officer will at all times, if applied to by the chiefs, gladly use their mediation and kind offices to promote harmony and good-will between the chiefs and people of the different territories with each other, and with the chiefs and people of the surrounding countries.

IV. The persons and property of the subjects of the Queen of England shall be inviolate, and they shall be permitted to carry on trade freely in every part of the territories of the chiefs parties hereto, and they may have houses and factories therein, and the said chiefs pledge themselves to show no favour to the ships and traders of other countries which they do not show to the subjects of Her Majesty the Queen of England.

V. No purrah or country law of any kind is to be enforced against the subjects of the Queen of England, but if they wrong or injure the people of the Chiefs parties hereto, application shall be made to the Governor of Sierra Leone and senior naval officer, who will not allow the guilty to go unpunished, but will do all in their power to compel the subjects of the Queen of England to make reparation for the wrongs they may have committed.

VI. The Ministers of the Christian religion shall be permitted to reside and exercise their calling within the territories of the Chiefs parties hereto, who hereby guarantee to them full protection. In faith whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals, on board Her Majesty's steam ship "Centaur," off Gallinas, 2nd February, 1850.

(L.S.) HUGH DUNLOP. Chiefs PRINCE MANNA. of JAMES WESTON ROGERS. Gallinas. (JAMES ROGERS. Chief of Solyman, SHAPHA PAMAH.

JOHN SHAPHA ROGERS.
LUCINI ROGERS.
SHANISEE.

King of Sugury, SANDFISH.

King of Manna River, GEO. ROBIN.
Chief of Manna Rock, Toм COLE,
Chief of Cape Mount, PRINCE CAIN.
Chief of Solyman, DwARO MAMBO.

By virtue of the power deputed to me, I hereby declare the approval of Her Majesty the Queen, my Mistress, to the above engagement.

ARTHUR FANSHAWE, Commodore and Commander-in-chief.

(24.)-TREATY with the Chiefs of Goom Cork-way. January 26,

1852.

I, THOMAS GEORGE FORBES, Esquire, Commander of Her Majesty's ship" Philomel," on the part of Her Majesty the Queen of England, and the Chiefs of Goom Cork-way, or Gomalouta, and

of the neighbourhood, on the part of themselves and of their country, have agreed upon the following Articles and Conditions:

[Here follow Articles I to IX. See Treaty with Lagos, No. 27.]

In faith of which we have hereunto set our hands and seals at Goom Cork-way, 26th January, 1852.

(L.S.) THOS. GEO. FORBES, Commander, R.N.

I-E-QUAY.

ADOQUAY.
NAR-TAY.

(25.)-TREATY with the Chiefs of Jaboo. Lagos, February 25,

1852.

ARTHUR PARRY EARDLEY WILMOT, Esquire, Commander of Her Majesty's ship "Harlequin," on the part of Her Majesty the Queen of England, and the King and Chiefs of Jaboo and of the neighbourhood, on the part of themselves and of their country, have agreed upon the following Articles and Conditions:

[Here follow Articles I to IX. See Treaty with Lagos, No. 27.]

In faith of which we have hereunto set our hands and seals at Lagos, 25th February, 1852.

(L.S.) ARTHUR E. WILMOT, Commander.

King of Jaboo, IBAGOIE.

QUITCHEROE, GAZA, OGEBAYE, BAWEWOE, OKATU, OKUMADIE, Chiefs of Jaboo.

(L.S.) NORMAN B. BEDINGFELD,

Lieutenant, Commanding Her Majesty's steam-vessel "Jackal." (L.S.) C. F. F. BOUGHEY,

Lieutenant, Her Majesty's sloop "Harlequin."

(26.)-TREATY with the King and Chiefs of Kykandy. Signed March 19, 1851.

TREATY with Tongoh, Chief of Kykandy, concluded by the same Commissioners who concluded the Treaty with the Chiefs of the Rio Nunez, at Caniope, March 21, 1851.

[See Treaty and Memorandum annexed, Pages 37-40.]

(27.)-TREATY with the King and Chiefs of Lagos. January 1,

1852.

COMMODORE HENRY WILLIAM BRUCE, Commander-in-chief of Her Majesty's ships and vessels on the West Coast of Africa, and John Beecroft, Esquire, Her Majesty's Consul in the Bights of Benin and Biafra, on the part of Her Majesty the Queen of England, and the King and Chief of Lagos and of the neighbourhood, on the part of themselves and of their country, have agreed upon the following Articles and Conditions:

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ART. I. The export of slaves to foreign countries is for ever abolished in the territories of the King and Chiefs of Lagos; and the King and Chiefs of Lagos engage to make and to proclaim a law prohibiting any of their subjects, or any person within their jurisdiction, from selling or assisting in the sale of any slave for transportation to a foreign country; and the King and Chiefs of Lagos promise to inflict a severe punishment on any person who shall break this law.

II. No European or other person whatever, shall be permitted to reside within the territory of the King and Chiefs of Lagos for the purpose of carrying on in any way the Traffic in Slaves; and no houses, or stores, or buildings of any kind whatever shall be erected for the purpose of Slave Trade within the territory of the King and Chiefs of Lagos; and if any such houses, stores, or buildings shall at any future time be erected, and the King and Chiefs of Lagos shall fail or be unable to destroy them, they may be destroyed by any British officers employed for the suppression of Slave Trade.

III. If at any time it shall appear that Slave Trade has been carried on through or from the territory of the King and Chiefs of Lagos, the Slave Trade may be put down by Great Britain by force upon that territory, and British officers may seize the boats of Lagos found anywhere carrying on the Slave Trade; and the King and Chiefs of Lagos will be subject to a severe act of displeasure on the part of the Queen of England.

IV. The slaves now held for exportation shall be delivered up to any British officer duly authorized to receive them, for the purpose of being carried to a British colony and there liberated; and all the implements of Slave Trade, and the barracoons or buildings exclusively used in the Slave Trade shall be forthwith destroyed.

V. Europeans or other persons now engaged in the Slave Trade are to be expelled the country; the houses, stores, or buildings hitherto employed as slave-factories, if not converted to lawful purposes within 3 months of the conclusion of this Engagement, are to be destroyed.

VI. The subjects of the Queen of England may always trade freely with the people of Lagos in every article they may wish to buy and sell in all the places, and ports, and rivers within the territories of the King and Chiefs of Lagos, and throughout the whole of their dominions; and the King and Chiefs of Lagos, pledge themselves to show no favour, and give no privilege to the ships and traders of other countries which they do not show to those of England.

VII. The King and Chiefs of Lagos declare that no human beings shall at any time be sacrificed within their territories on account of religious or other ceremonies; and that they will prevent the barbarous practice of murdering prisoners captured in war.