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SLAVE TRADE ACT 1873 - SECT 3

3. Where a vessel is, on reasonable grounds, suspected of being engaged in or
fitted out for the slave trade, it shall (subject in the case either of the
vessel of a foreign state, or of the commander or officer of a cruiser of a
foreign state, to the limitations, restrictions, and regulations, if any,
applicable thereto contained in any existing slave trade treaty made with such
state) be lawful

(a)If the vessel is a British vessel, or is engaged in the slave trade within
British jurisdiction, or is not a vessel of a foreign state, for any commander
or officer of any of Her Majesty's ships, for any officer bearing Her
Majesty's commission in the army or navy, for any officer of Her Majesty's
customs in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, or Isle of Man, for the
governor of a British possession, or any person authorised by any such
governor, and for any commander or officer of any cruiser of a foreign state
authorised in pursuance of any existing slave trade treaty; and

(b)If the vessel is the vessel of a foreign state, for any commander or
officer of any of Her Majesty's ships, when duly authorised in that behalf, in
pursuance of any treaty with that state, and for any commander or officer of
any cruiser of that foreign state,

All vessels, slaves, persons, goods, and effects which may be forfeited under
the enactments with which this Act is to be construed as one, as herein-after
mentioned, may be visited, seized, and detained by any commander, officer,
governor, or person authorised by this section to seize a British vessel.

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