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SLAVE TRADE ACT 1873 - SECT 12

Bounty and other payments where vessel, slave, or goods not seized by cruisers.

12. Where any vessel, slave, goods, or effects seized in pursuance of this Act
otherwise than by the commander or officer of one of Her Majesty's ships, or
of the cruiser of a foreign state, have been condemned by a slave court, there
shall be paid the following sums:

(1)Two thirds of the appraised value of the vessel or (if the vessel was
broken up and the materials thereof publicly sold in separate parts) of the
net proceeds of such sale, and two thirds of the net proceeds of such goods
and effects (after deducting from such appraised value or net proceeds the
charges of prosecution) for the use of Her Majesty, to such persons as the
Treasury may from time to time appoint, to be carried to the Consolidated
Fund:

(2)The remaining third part of the said appraised value or net proceeds of the
vessel and of the net proceeds of such goods and effects to the person who
lawfully seized and prosecuted the ship, goods, and effects respectively to
condemnation:

(3)For every slave so condemned who is delivered over, a slave bounty of five
pounds to the person who prosecuted the same to condemnation.

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 in respect 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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