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'An Act to extend the provisions of an Act made in the forty-sixth year of His Majesty's reign, intituled an Act for the more speedy trial of offences committed in distant parts upon the seas, to the trial of offences committed in Africa against the laws for abolishing the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1819-07-12 - 1819-07-12
MGS/64/26
'An Act for carrying into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of New Granada for the suppression the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1853-05-09 - 1853-05-09
MGS/64/83
'Negro' slavery - No.V Conduct and treatment of missionaries in the West Indies' (Manuscript)
1823-01-01 - 1823-12-31
MGS/65
'A very new pamphlet indeed! Being the truth: addressed to the people at large, containing some strictures on the English Jacobins, and the evidence of Lord McCartney, and other, before the House of Lords, respecting the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1792-01-01 - 1792-12-31
MGS/60
'An Act for carrying into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of the Equator for the abolition of the traffic in slaves' (Manuscript)
1848-09-04 - 1848-09-04
MGS/64/79
'An Act for carrying into effect the agreement between Her Majesty and the Imaum of Muscat for the more effectual suppression the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1848-09-05 - 1848-09-05
MGS/64/80
Bell's Weekly Messenger (Manuscript)
1813-09-12 - 1813-09-12
MGS/50
Bell's Weekly Messenger (Manuscript)
1811-07-14 - 1811-07-14
MGS/49
The Tourist or Sketch Books of the Times (Manuscript)
1832-11-26 - 1832-12-03
MGS/52
'The speech of the Right Honourable William Pitt, on a motion for the abolition of the slave trade, in the House of Commons, Monday the Second of April, 1792' (Manuscript)
1792-04-02 - 1792-12-31
MGS/61
'An Act for carrying into effect the treaty with the King of the French and the King of Denmark for suppressing the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1835-09-09 - 1835-09-09
MGS/64/40
'An Act for extending to the Governors and Officers of the East India Company the powers given by an Act of the fifth year of King George the Fourth to Her Majesty's Governors and Officers for the more effectual suppression of the importation of slaves into India by sea' (Manuscript)
1842-08-10 - 1842-08-10
MGS/64/67
'An Act to repeal so much of an Act of the second and third years of Her present Majesty, for the suppression of the slave trade, as relates to Portuguese vessels' (Manuscript)
1842-08-12 - 1842-08-12
MGS/64/68
'An Act to reduce the rate of bounties payable upon the seizure of slaves' (Manuscript)
1830-07-16 - 1830-07-16
MGS/64/35
'An Act to continue an Act for amending and consolidating the laws relating to the abolition of the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1828-07-25 - 1828-07-25
MGS/64/34
'An Act for carrying into effect two conventions with the King of the French for suppressing the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1833-08-28 - 1833-08-28
MGS/64/36
'An Act to carry into further execution the provisions of an Act passed in the third and fourth years of His present Majesty, for compensating owners of slaves upon the abolition of slavery' (Manuscript)
1835-08-31 - 1835-08-31
MGS/64/38
'An Act for better and more effectually carrying info effect treaties and conventions with foreign states for suppressing the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1842-06-30 - 1842-06-30
MGS/64/63
'An Act for carrying into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of Chile for the abolition of the traffic in slaves' (Manuscript)
1843-08-10 - 1843-08-10
MGS/64/75
'An Act for carrying into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Queen of Portugal for the suppression of the traffic in slaves' (Manuscript)
1843-08-10 - 1843-08-10
MGS/64/76
'An Act for carrying into further execution two Acts of His present Majesty, relating to the compensation for slaves upon the abolition of slavery, and for facilitating the distribution and payment of such compensation' (Manuscript)
1836-03-18 - 1836-03-18
MGS/64/41
'An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the fifty-first year of His Majesty's reign, for rendering more effectual an Act made in the forty-seventh year of His Majesty's reign, for the abolition of the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1818-06-10 - 1818-06-10
MGS/64/23
'An Act for carrying into effect a treaty made between His Majesty and the Queen Regent of Spain for the abolition of the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1836-03-30 - 1836-03-30
MGS/64/42
'An Act to authorize His Majesty, until six months after the commencement of the next session of Parliament, to carry into immediate execution, by orders in Council, any treaties, conventions, or stipulations made with any foreign power or state for the suppression of the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1836-08-17 - 1836-08-17
MGS/64/44
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