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'An Act to continue, for a limited time, and to amend several Acts of Parliament for regulating the shipping and carrying slaves in British vessels from the coast of Africa' (Manuscript)
1793-01-01 - 1793-12-31
MGS/64/6
'An Act to continue, for a limited time, several Acts of Parliament for regulating the shipping and carrying slaves in British vessels from the coast of Africa' (Manuscript)
1792-01-01 - 1792-12-31
MGS/64/5
'An Act to continue, for a limited time, and amend an Act, made in the last session of Parliament, intituled, An Act to regulate, for a limited time, the shipping and carrying of slaves in British vessels from the coast of Africa' (Manuscript)
1789-01-01 - 1789-12-31
MGS/64/2
'An Act to amend and continue, for a limited time, several Acts of Parliament for regulating the shipping and carrying of slaves in British vessels from the coast of Africa' (Manuscript)
1790-01-01 - 1790-12-31
MGS/64/3
'An Act to prohibit for two years after the conclusion of the present session of Parliament, any ships to clear out from any port of Great Britain, for the coast of Africa, for the purpose of taking on board Negroes, unless such ships shall have been previously employed in the African trade, or contracted for, for that purpose' (Manuscript)
1806-07-21 - 1806-07-21
MGS/64/14
'An Act for regulating the height between decks of vessels entering outwards for the purpose of carrying slaves from the coast of Africa' (Manuscript)
1797-01-01 - 1797-12-31
MGS/64/10
'An Act for regulating, until the first day of August one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, the shipping and carrying of slaves in British vessels from the coast of Africa' (Manuscript)
1798-06-28 - 1798-06-28
MGS/64/11
'An Act for better regulating the manner of carrying slaves, in British vessels, from the coast of Africa' (Manuscript)
1799-07-12 - 1799-07-12
MGS/64/12
'An Act to amend the slave trade (East African Courts) Act, 1873' (Manuscript)
1879-08-11 - 1879-08-11
MGS/64/85
'An Act for the more effectual suppression of the African slave trade' (Manuscript)
1824-06-24 - 1824-06-24
MGS/64/31
'An Act for the more effectual suppression of the African slave trade' (Manuscript)
1824-03-31 - 1824-03-31
MGS/64/30
Anti-Slavery Society cheque (Manuscript)
1834-08-10 - 1834-08-10
MGS/38
'An Act for transferring to His Majesty, certain possessions and rights vested in the Sierra Leone Company, and for shortening the duration of the said Company, and for preventing any dealing or trafficking in the buying or selling of slaves within the colony of Sierra Leone' (Manuscript)
1807-08-08 - 1807-08-08
MGS/64/16
'An Act to prevent the importation of slaves, by any of His Majesty's subjects, into any islands, colonies, plantations, or territories belonging to any foreign sovereign, state, or power...' (Manuscript)
1806-05-23 - 1806-05-23
MGS/64/13
'An Act for carrying into effect the engagement between Her Majesty and Syed Syf bin Hamood, the Chief of Sohar, in Arabia, for the more effectual suppression the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1853-05-09 - 1853-05-09
MGS/64/82
'An Act for carrying into effect engagements between Her Majesty and certain Arabian Chiefs in the Persian Gulf for the more effectual suppression the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1849-08-01 - 1849-08-01
MGS/64/81
'At a meeting of planters, merchants, and others, interested in the Colonies of Trinidad, British Guiana, St Lucia, the Cape of Good Hope, and the Mauritius, held at the West India Dock House, the 1st October, 1831' (Manuscript)
1831-10-01 - 1831-10-01
MGS/66
'An Act to amend an Act of the second and third years of Her Majesty, for the suppression of the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1842-08-10 - 1842-08-10
MGS/64/65
'An Act to continue until the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty-three an Act for authorizing Her Majesty to carry into immediate execution, by orders in Council, any treaties for the suppression of the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1842-07-30 - 1842-07-30
MGS/64/64
'An Act to permit, until the thirty-first day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, wheat to be delivered from the warehouse or the vessel duty-free, upon the previous substitution of an equivalent quantity of flour or biscuit in the warehouse' (Manuscript)
1842-08-10 - 1842-08-10
MGS/64/66
'An Act for carrying into effect a treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of Bolivia for the abolition of the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1843-04-11 - 1843-04-11
MGS/64/70
'An Act for carrying into effect a treaty with the King of the French and the King of Sardinia for suppressing the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1835-09-09 - 1835-09-09
MGS/64/39
'An Act for carrying info effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Argentine Confederation for the abolition of the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1842-06-30 - 1842-06-30
MGS/64/62
'An Act for carrying into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Mexican Republic for the abolition of the traffic in slaves' (Manuscript)
1843-08-10 - 1843-08-10
MGS/64/74
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