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SLAVE TRADE ACT 1873 - SECT 15

Payment by Treasury of costs, damages, and expenses.

15. Where any visitation, seizure, detention, or prosecution purports to have
been made or instituted in pursuance of this Act, the Treasury when required
under any treaty shall, and in any other case may, if they think fit, pay the
whole or any part of any costs, expenses, compensation, and damages which may
have been awarded against the person making or instituting such visitation,
seizure, detention, or prosecution, or any costs and expenses which may have
been incurred in respect of the same, or on account of any person on board any
vessel so visited, seized, or detained; but nothing in this section shall
exempt the commander or officer of the ship, or other person by whom the
visitation, seizure, detention, or prosecution was made or instituted from his
liability to make good any sum so paid when required by the Treasury so to do,
and when any such commander or officer, or other person serving under the
Admiralty, or any person serving under any other department of the Government,
is so required to make good any sum, that sum shall, if the Treasury so
direct, be deducted by the Admiralty or other department of the Government,
under whom such person is serving, from any payment to which such commander,
officer, or person is entitled on account of salary, pay, prize, or bounty.

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