disqualified for every other, and pay a mulct of 400 milreis.

S. 1. The chief authority at the Custom-house, who employed the officer by whom the false report was given in, shall likewise pay a mulct of 600,000 reis, if there should have been any negligence on his own part; which mulet shall be trebled, with forfeiture of office, and disqualification for all other, should there be proof of his having been guilty of connivance.

Art. 19. The Governors, or principal authorities acting for them, in any part of the Portuguese dominions, where it may be proved, that owing to their remissness or negligence any exportation or importation of slaves, other than that permitted by the third Article of this decree, has taken place, shall forfeit their respective offices, and be rendered, during five years, incapable of exercising any others. Should there, however, be proof of connivance on their part too, they shall moreover be condemned to five years' transportation to some of the settlements in the interior of Africa, besides a mulct of 2,000 milreis each.

S. 1. The captains, or masters, and mates of slaving vessels, as well as the persons charged with the purchase or sale of the slaves, or their conveyance on board such vessels, shall be confined in the galleys during a period of from two to five years, and pay a mulct of from 500 to 2,000 milreis each, and in solidum.

S. 2. All other individuals found on board vessels employed in the said traffic, not comprized in the foregoing clause, shall be condemned to serve from two to four years on board national ships of war, without pay, and in the rating awarded to them by their sentence according to the importance of the circumstances.

Art. 20. All contravention of the provisions of this Decree is hereby declared to be a public crime; and its prosecution becomes a special duty of the Procuradores Regios (Crown Attorneys) and their dele

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gates, on pain of suspension. Any person, however, shall be competent to give information of such contravention.

Art. 21. With regard to the transgressions against this decree, no prescriptions shall prevent the taking. cognizance of, or imposing penalties for them.

Art. 22. The magistrates of the several districts are the competent persons to take cognizance of offences against this decree, but their decisions may always be appealed from to the supreme tribunal of commerce.

S. 1. The magistrates, as well as the said tribunal, shall apportion the penalties, as may be just, and within the limits prescribed by this decree.

Art. 23. The Consuls and Vice Consuls of Portugal at any ports frequented by Portuguese vessels, are charged with the execution of the present decree; and may, on learning any transgression of it, require of the competent authorities of the country, the detention of the vessel, and the arrest of the criminal parties, whereupon they shall send the ship, her cargo, and the prisoners, to the Ministry of Marine, in order that cognizance may be taken of the case by the competent authority.

S. 1. Any Consul or Vice Consul convicted of remissness in the execution of this Article, shall be punished with the forfeiture of his office, and disqualification for any other.

S. 2. In case of connivance, he shall, in addition to incurring the penalties mentioned in the preceding. clause, pay a mulct of from 2,000 to 5,000 milries.

Art. 24. Of the sums arising from all the penalties imposed, and bonds unredeemed, one half shall go to the Treasury, and the other half to a fund from which the wants of the freedmen, who by virtue of this decree are to obtain their manumission, shall be supplied.

S. 1. The municipal chamber of each district shall administer this fund, and render an account of its administration to the competent authority.

S. 2. In case of information being given, the

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amount of the penalty shall be divided into three portions, one to go to the Treasury, another to the freedmen's fund, and the third to the informer.

S. 3. In case of apprehension effected on land, or in port, the sum which legally belongs to the apprehenders shall be set apart, before the division stated in the preceding clause is proceeded to.

S. 4. In cases of capture at sea, the dispositions of the anterior laws and regulations, shall be followed in the division of the prize.

Art. 25. The present Decree shall be published in the usual form by the governors of the ultra-marine dominions as soon as received by them; and they shall, moreover, give a copy of it to each of the municipal chambers, to the respective Custom-houses, and to the juizes de direito (magistrates.)

S. 1. Copies of this decree shall be sent from the Foreign Office to the Portuguese Legations and Consulates in every foreign country.

The Secretaries of State of the several departments shall so understand it, and cause it to be carried into effect.

Palace of Necessidades 10th Dec. 1836.

(Signed) by the QUEEN, and Countersigned
by all Her Majesty's Ministers.

List of articles which, being found on board of any vessel, must be considered as indications of her being intended for the Slave Trade, and to subject her to the provisions of the Decree of the 10th of December 1836, of which this list constitutes a part.

1. Hatchways with open gratings, instead of being closed according to the practice of Merchant vessels.

2. A flush deck, or a greater number of compartments than is usual or necessary on board fair traders.

3. Planks

3. Planks ready fitted to form a second deck, as used by Slavers.

4. Collars, manacles, thumb-screws, or chains.

5. A greater quantity of water in casks or tanks than is necessary for the crew of a merchant vessel.

6. An extraordinary number of pipes or casks to contain liquids, should the captain not be able to present a certificate from the Custom-house from which he cleared out, showing that the owners of the vessel gave bond for them, and that they are intended to receive palm or fish oil, or for any other purpose of licit commerce.

7. A greater number of buckets, tubs, or messtrays than necessary for the crew of a merchant vessel.

8. A boiler of larger dimensions than usual, and than would be required for the use of the crew : or several boilers in greater number than would be necessary for that purpose.

9. An extraordinary quantity of rice, beans, salt meat and fish, Mandioca maize, wheaten or any other flour, beyond that required for the use of the crew, unless such articles should form part of the cargo, and be duly manifested.

(Signed) VISCONDE DE SA BANDEIRA. Foreign-Office, December 10, 1836.

Whitehall, January 16, 1837.

The King has been pleased to appoint Sir James Colquhoun, of Luss, in the shire of Dumbarton, Bart. to be Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of the said shire of Dumbarton, in the room of James Duke of Montrose, deceased.

Whitehall, January 15, 1837.

The King has been pleased to nominate the Reverend Fortescue Todd, LL. B. to the Ministry of Brunswick Chapel, in the parish of St. Mary-leBone, in the county of Middlesex and diocese of London, void by the resignation of the Reverend St. Vincent Love Hammick.

Lord Chamberlain's-Office, January 3, 1837.

The Lord Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household has appointed the Reverend John Ryle Wood, M. A. Chaplain in Ordinary to the King, in the room of the Reverend John Keysall, deceased.

War-Office, 17th January 1837

CHELSEA HOSPITAL.

General Honourable Sir Edward Paget, G. C. B. to be Governor, vice Sir Samuel Hulse, deceased. Dated 10th January 1837.