can with respect to the person from whom he obtained the rubber, and any other information in his power which may lead to the detection of the actual offenders.

6. These Regulations shall come into force on the 1st September, 1899.

ALFRED SHARPE, Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General.

Zomba, August 24, 1899.

ORDER of the Secretary of State, granting Authority to the Court in British Central Africa to impose Sentences of Imprisonment with Hard Labour. London, September 9, 1899.

IN exercise of the powers conferred by Article 110 of "The Africa Order in Council, 1889,"* I hereby direct that where, under the said Order, or any law of England, or of India, or of any African possession of Her Majesty, for the time being in force in the British Central Africa Protectorate, it is provided that a person may be sentenced to penal servitude, transportation, rigorous imprisonment, or any form of imprisonment other than simple imprisonment, for any period, the Court may (subject to any provisions of the said Order, or otherwise, limiting its jurisdiction) sentence such person to imprisonment with hard labour for any period not exceeding the specified or maximum period.

Foreign Office, September 9, 1899.

SALISBURY.

AFRICA (East).

REGULATIONS for the Control of Dhows flying the British Flag. Zanzibar, July 14, 1894.

[No. 19.]

WHEREAS under the provisions of "The Zanzibar Order in Council, 1888," as amended by "The Zanzibar (Jurisdiction) Order in Council, 1893," the Consul-General has power from + See Vol. 18. Page 1197.

See Vol. 18. Page 34.

See Vol. 19. Page 951.

time to time to make regulations for peace, order and good government, and for enforcing the observance of any Treaty or Convention to which Her Majesty may be a party:

And whereas Her Majesty is a party to the General Act of the Brussels Conference signed at Brussels on the 2nd July,

1890:

It is hereby notified that the Consul-General has, in pursuance of the powers aforesaid, made the following:

REGULATIONS.

1. The Articles in the Schedule to these Regulations, which have been drawn up in conformity with the General Act of the Brussels Conference, are hereby declared to be binding on all British subjects and British-protected persons as Regulations under the said Order in Council.

2. Authority to carry the British flag will be granted by Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General to fitters-out and owners of native vessels on the terms and subject to the conditions appearing in the said Articles.

3. Except the granting of the authority to carry the British flag, any power referred to in the said Articles may be exercised by any Consul, Vice-Consul, or by other officer or person appointed by the Consul-General.

4. Any British subject or British-protected person convicted of any breach or contravention of the said Articles, or of resisting or obstructing any officer in the execution of his duty in relation thereto, is liable to be punished as prescribed in the said Order in Council, that is to say, with fine which may extend to 1,000 rupees, or with imprisonment which may extend to two months, or both.

SCHEDULE.

ART. I. The term "native vessel" applies to vessels fulfilling one of the two following conditions:

1. It must present the outward appearance of native build or rig.

2. It must be manned by a crew of whom the captain and the majority of the seamen belong by origin to a country having a sea coast on the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, or the Persian Gulf.

II. Authority to fly the British flag will only be granted to such native vessels as satisfy all the three following conditions. 1. Their fitters out or owners must be either British subjects or British-protected persons.

2. They must furnish proof that they possess real estate situated in the district of the authority to whom their applica

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tion is addressed, or supply a solvent security as a guarantee for any fines to which they may eventually become liable.

3. Such fitters-out or owners, as well as the captain of the vessel, must furnish proof that they enjoy a good reputation, and especially that they have never been condemned for acts of Slave Trade.

III. The authorization when granted must be renewed every year. It can at any time be suspended or withdrawn by the British authority.

IV. The deed of authorization shall bear the indications necessary to establish the identity of the vessel. The captain shall have the custody of it. The name of the native vessel and the indication of its tonnage shall be inlaid and painted in Latin characters on the stern; and the initial Z, as well as the registration number in the series of numbers of the port of Zanzibar, shall be printed in black on the sails.

A Crew List shall be issued to the captain of the vessel by the Port Officer. Should circumstances oblige the captain to engage a new crew at any other port than Zanzibar, he will apply for the crew list to the territorial authority. The crew list shall be renewed each time the vessel is fitted out, or, at latest, at the end of a year, and in conformity with the following provisions:

1. The list will be visé at the moment of departure at the Port Office in Zanzibar-and elsewhere by the territorial authority.

2. No negro can be engaged as a seamen on a vessel, without having been previously questioned at the Port Office, or. if engaged elsewhere than at Zanzibar, by the territorial authority, with a view to establishing that he has contracted a free engagement.

3. These authorities will see that the proportion of seamen and boys is not out of proportion to the tonnage and rig of the vessels.

4. The men will be inscribed, after due interrogation, in the crew list, and a short description of each will be mentioned against his name.

5. The responsibility for proceeding to sea with any of these conditions unfulfilled rests with the captain.

VI. No dhow is allowed to sail to any port of the mainland or to any port outside the Sultan's dominions from any place in Zanzibar Island except Zanzibar harbour.

VII. If the captain or owner desires to embark negro passengers he shall make declaration thereof to the Port Officer in Zanzibar, and elsewhere to the territorial authority. The passengers will be interrogated, and after it has been understood that they embark of their own free will, they shall be inscribed in a special manifest, bearing the description of

each of them against the name and indicating especially sex and height. Negro children will not be admitted as passengers unless accompanied by their relations or by persons of known respectability. Before departure the manifest will be visé by the authority which has issued it, after being duly called over. If there are no passengers this shall be notified on the crew list. The responsibility for proceeding to sea with any of the above conditions unfulfilled rests with the captain.

VIII. On arrival at Zanzibar the captain shall immediately proceed to the Port Office with all his papers, accompanied by any passengers he may have brought with him, who will be there checked, whether their ultimate destination be Zanzibar or some further port of call. The Port Officer will correct the passenger manifest if necessary, and if the vessel be proceeding further affix a fresh visa.

On arrival at any foreign port the captain will proceed in conformity with the regulations there in force.

IX. On the African Coast and adjacent islands, including the dominions of His Highness the Sultan, no negro passenger shall be shipped on board, nor landed from a native vessel, except in localities where there is a resident authority belong ing to one of the Signatory Powers of the Brussels Act.

X. Native vessels are required to fly the flag on arrival in and departure from, as well as throughout the whole of their stay in harbour, and when at sea the flag is to be hoisted immediately on the approach of a man-of-war or of its boats.

XI. Any act or attempted act of Slave Trade legally brought home to the captain, fitter-out, or owner of a vessel authorized to fly the British flag, will entail the immediate withdrawal of this authorization in addition to any penalties otherwise imposed.

XII. Should British Consular authorities hereafter be resident at ports other than Zanzibar in the dominions of His Highness the Sultan, unless it be otherwise specially appointed, the functions referred to as being exercised by the territorial authority will there. in so far as British subjects or Britishprotected persons are concerned, be exercised by such Consular authorities.

ANNEX to the above Articles

TABLE OF FEES.

At the British Agency and Consulate-General, Zanzibar.

For permission to fly the British flag

At the Port Office.

For registration, including crew list and letters for sail :

17. sterling,

Rs. a. p.
5 0

10 0 0

15 O 0

25 0 0

5 00

500

Duplicate licence

do. Cloth Nos.

do. Zinc

For passenger manifests

Renewal of crew list, cach time

080

1 00

100

These Regulations come into force after seven clear days

from the date of publication.

ARTHUR H. HARDINGE, Her Britannic Majesty's
Diplomatic Agent and Consul-General.

Zanzibar, July 14, 1894.

REGULATIONS for the registration and protection of Porters in the British East Africa Protectorate. Zanzibar, May 12, 1896.

[No. 20.]

1. SUBJECT to the provision in the 9th Regulation, on and after the 1st of July, 1896, no porter will be allowed to proceed on a journey to the interior unless he has been registered before the Registrar in Mombasa, or before the European District or Assistant District Officer of the station from which he starts.

(N.B.) The term "porter" means any native African engaged for service on a caravan.

2. The fees for registration are as follows:

(a) For journey not exceeding 2 months

:

Rs.

3

5

10

For journey exceeding 2 months but not exceeding 6 months.. (e) For journey exceeding 6 months but not exceeding 1 year (d) For journey exceeding 1 year and not exceeding 2 years

3. A deposit of Rs. 50 shall be paid to the Registrar for each porter engaged for a journey exceeding three months.

4. Any unregistered porter leaving the coast shall be subject to detention by any officer of the Administration in the interior, pending enquiries, and no claim arising out of the engagement of such porter will be recognised by the Administration, either for desertion, or recovery of advances which he may have received,