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'An Act to continue, until eight months after the commencement of the next session of Parliament, an Act for authorizing Her Majesty to carry into immediate execution, by orders in Council, any treaties made for the suppression of the slave trade (Manuscript)
1840-08-07
MGS/64/58
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: Victoria, Chapter 64, 'An Act to continue, until eight months after the commencement of the next session of Parliament, an Act for authorizing Her Majesty to carry into immediate execution, by orders in Council, any treat…
'An Act for the suppression of the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1839-08-24
MGS/64/57
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: Victoria, Chapter 73, 'An Act for the suppression of the slave trade', dated 24 August 1839 (3 copies).
'An Act to make further provision for facilitating and completing the distribution and payment of compensation for slaves upon the abolition of slavery' (Manuscript)
1841-05-18
MGS/64/60
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: Victoria, Chapter 18, 'An Act to make further provision for facilitating and completing the distribution and payment of compensation for slaves upon the abolition of slavery', dated 18 May 1841 (2 copies).
'An Act for carrying info effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of Venezuela, for the suppression of the slave trade' (Manuscript)
1840-08-07
MGS/64/59
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: Victoria, Chapter 67, 'An Act for carrying info effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of Venezuela, for the suppression of the slave trade', dated 7 August 1840.
'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
MGS/64/61
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: Victoria, Chapter 40, 'An Act for carrying info effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Argentine Confederation for the abolition of the slave trade', dated 30 June 1842 (3 copies).
'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
MGS/64/26
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: George III, Chapter 97, '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,…
'An Act for establishing a registry of colonial slaves in Great Britain, and for making further provision with respect to the removal of slaves from British colonies' (Manuscript)
1819-07-12
MGS/64/27
British Parliamentary bills relating to the abolition of the slave trade: George III, Chapter 120, 'An Act for establishing a registry of colonial slaves in Great Britain, and for making further provision with respect to the removal of slaves from British colonies', dated 12 July 1819
Bills of sale (Manuscript)
1801-01-08 - 1804-01-27
MGS/5
5 bills of sale for enslaved individuals (3 pages, 2 stitched together), Lima, Peru, dated 8 January 1801-27 January 1804. In Spanish with accompanying translations (transcribed August 2014)
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