SLAVE TRADE ACT 1873

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SLAVE TRADE ACT 1873 - SECT 11



11. Where a vessel (whether British or not) or slave, goods or effects, seized
in pursuance of this Act by any commander or officer of any one of Her
Majesty's ships, have been condemned by a slave court, there shall be paid to
the commander, officers, and crew of such ship the following sums:

(1)A slave bounty of five pounds for every slave so condemned who is delivered
over, or, if the commander of the ship so elect, a tonnage bounty of four
pounds for every ton of the tonnage of the vessel condemned:

(2)That part to which Her Majesty is entitled of the appraised value of the
vessel condemned, or, if such vessel was broken up and the materials thereof
publicly sold in separate parts, of the net proceeds of such sale after
deducting the charges of prosecution:

(3)Where the condemned vessel

(a)was brought into port and was broken up in pursuance of the order of the
slave court, and the materials thereof publicly sold in separate parts; or

(b)was abandoned or destroyed prior to condemnation, and the slave court by
the decree of condemnation declared that, after full consideration by the
court of the circumstances of the case, the seizors had satisfied the court
that such abandonment or destruction was inevitable, or otherwise under the
circumstances proper and justifiable,

(3)a further tonnage bounty at the rate of [#1.50] for every ton of the
tonnage of the vessel; and

(4)The net proceeds to which Her Majesty is entitled (after deducting the
charges of prosecution) of any such goods and effects which the slave court
ordered to be sold.

Where any slave so condemned is not delivered over in consequence of death,
sickness, or other inevitable circumstances, the Treasury may, if they think
fit, pay to the seizors of such slave one moiety of the slave bounty which
would have been due in respect of such slave if he had been delivered over.

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SLAVE TRADE ACT 1873 - SECT 11