Slave Trade Act 1873

FIRST SCHEDULE Equipments which are primâ facie evidence op a Vessel being engaged in the slave trade

• First—Hatches with open gratings, instead of the close hatches which are usual in merchant vessels.

• Secondly—Divisions or bulkheads in the hold or on deck more numerous than are necessary for vessels engaged in lawful trade.

• Thirdly—Spare plank fitted for being laid down as a second or slave deck.

• Fourthly—Shackles, bolts, or handcuffs.

• Fifthly—A larger quantity of water in casks or in tanks than is requisite for the consumption of the crew of the vessel as a merchant vessel.

• Sixthly—An extraordinary number of water casks or of other vessels for holding liquid, unless the master shall produce a certificate from the custom house at the place from which he cleared outwards, stating that a sufficient security had been given by the owners of such vessel that such extra quantity of casks or of other vessels should only be used for the reception of palm oil, or for other purposes of lawful commerce.

• Seventhly—A greater quantity of mess tubs or kids than are requisite for the use of the crew of the vessel as a merchant vessel.

• Eighthly—A boiler or other cooking apparatus of an unusual size, and larger or fitted for being or capable of being made larger than requisite for the use of the crew of the vessel as a merchant vessel, or more than one boiler or other-cooking apparatus of the ordinary size.

• Ninthly—An extraordinary quantity either of rice or of the flour of Brazil, manioc, or cassada, commonly called farinha, of maize or of Indian corn, or of any other article of food whatever, beyond what might probably be requisite for the use of the crew, such rice, flour, maize, Indian corn, or other article of food not being entered on the manifest as part of the cargo for trade.

• Tenthly—A quantity of mats or matting larger than is necessary for the use of the crew of the vessel as a merchant vessel.

• Eleventhly—Any other equipment, article, or thing, which is declared by any existing slave trade treaty to be primâ facie evidence of, a vessel being engaged in the slave trade.

SECOND SCHEDULE Acts Repealed

A description or citation of a portion of an Act is inclusive of the words, section, or other part first or last mentioned, or otherwise referred to as forming the beginning or as forming the end of the portion comprised in the description or citation.

Portions of Acts which have already been specifically repealed are in some instances included in the repeal in this schedule, in order to preclude henceforth tin necessity of looking back to previous Acts.

Date of Act.	Title.	Extent of Repeal.
59 Geo. 3. c. 16.	An Act to carry into effect the treaty with the Netherlands relating to the slave trade.	The whole Act.
5 Geo. 4. c.113.	An Act to amend and consolidate the laws relating to the abolition of the slave trade.	The whole Act, except sections two to eleven, section twelve, down to " taken to be in full, force," sections thirty-nine, forty, and forty-seven.
7 & 8 Geo. 4. c. 54.	An Act to carry into effect the treaty with Sweden relative to the slave trade.	The whole Act.
7 & 8 Geo. 4. c. 74.	An Act to carry into execution a convention "between His Majesty and the Emperor of Brazil for the regulation and final abolition of the African slave trade.	The whole Act.
11 Geo. 4. & 1 Will. 4. c. 55.	An Act to reduce the rate of bounties payable upon the seizure of slaves.	The whole Act.
3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 72.	An Act for carrying into effect two conventions with the King of the French for suppressing the slave trade.	The whole Act.
5 & 6 Will. 4.c. 60.	An Act for carrying into effect a treaty with the King of the French and the King of Sardinia for suppressing the slave trade.	The whole Act.
5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 61.	An Act for carrying into effect the treaty with the King of the French and the King of Denmark for suppressing the slave trade.	The whole Act.
6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 6.	An Act for carrying into effect a treaty made between His Majesty and the Queen Regent of Spain for the abolition of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
6 & 7 Will.4. c. 81.	An Act to authorize His Majesty, until six months after the commencement of the next session of Parliament, to carry into immediate execution, by Orders in Council, any treaties, conventions, or stipulations made with any foreign power or state for the suppression of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
7 Will. 4. & 1 Vict. c. 62.	An Act to authorize Her Majesty, until six months after the commencement of the next session of Parliament, to carry into immediate execution, by Orders in Council, any treaties, conventions, or stipulations made with any foreign power or state for the suppression of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
1 & 2 Vict. c. 39.	An Act for carrying into effect a convention of accession of the Hans Towns to two conventions with the King of the French for suppressing the slave trade.	The whole Act.
1 & 2 Vict. c. 40.	An Act to carry into effect an additional article to a treaty with Sweden relative to the slave trade.	The whole Act.
1 & 2 Vict. c. 41.	An Act for carrying into effect an additional article to a treaty with the Netherlands relating to the slave trade.	The whole Act.
1 & 2 Vict. c. 47.	An Act for the better and more effectually carrying into effect the treaties and conventions made with Foreign powers for suppressing the slave trade.	The whole Act.
1 & 2 Vict. c. 83.	An Act for carrying into effect a convention of accession of the Duke of Tuscany to two conventions with the King of the French for suppressing the slave trade.	The whole Act.
1 & 2 Vict. c. 84.	An Act for carrying into effect a convention of accession of the King of the Two Sicilies to two conventions with the King of the French for suppressing the slave trade.	The whole Act.
1 & 2 Vict. c. 102.	An Act to revive and continue, until six months after the commencement of the next session of Parliament, and to amend, an Act for authorising Her Majesty to carry into immediate execution, by Orders in Council, any treaties made for the suppression of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
2 & 3 Vict. c. 73.	An Act for the suppression of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 64.	An Act to continue until eight months after the commencement of the next session of Parliament an Act for authorizing Her Majesty to carry into immediate execution, by Orders in Council, any treaties for the suppression of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 67.	An Act for carrying into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of Venezuela for the suppression of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
5 & 6 Vict. c. 40.	An Act for carrying into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Argentine Confederation for the abolition of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
5 & 6 Vict. c. 41.	An Act for carrying into effect a convention between Her Majesty and the Republic of Hayti for the more effectial suppression of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
5 & 6 Vict. c. 42.	An Act for better and more effectually carrying into effect treaties and conventions with foreign states for suppressing the slave trade.	The whole Act.
5 & 6 Vict. c. 59.	An Act to continue until the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty-three an Act for authorizing Her Majesty to carry into immediate execution, by Orders in Council, any treaties for the suppression of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
5 & 6 Vict. c. 91.	An Act to amend an Act of the second and third years of Her Majesty for the suppression of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
5 & 6 Vict. c. 101.	An Act for extending to the governors and officers of the East India Company the powers given by an Act of the fifth year of King George the Fourth to Her Majesty's governors and officers for the more effectual suppression of the importation of slaves into India by sea:	The whole Act.
5 & 6 Vict. c. 114.	An Act' to repeal so much of an Act of the second and third years of Her present Majesty for the suppression of the slave trade as relates to Portuguese vessels.	The whole Act.
6 & 7 Vict. c. 14.	An Act for carrying into effect a treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of Bolivia for the abolition of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
6 & 7 Vict. c. 15.	An Act for carrying into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of Texas for the suppression of the African slave trade.	The whole Act.
6 & 7 Vict. c. 16.	An Act for carrying into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay for the abolition of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
6 & 7 Vict. c. 46.	An Act to continue until the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and to the end of the then session of Parliament, an Act for authorizing Her Majesty to carry into immediate execution, by Orders in Council, any treaties for the suppression of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
6 & 7 Vict. c. 50.	An Act for carrying into execution a treaty signed at London for the suppression of the slave trade, so far as the same relates to Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia.	The whole Act.
6 & 7 Vict. c. 51.	An Act for carrying into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Mexican Republic for the abolition of the traffic in slaves.	The whole Act.
6 & 7 Vict. c. 52.	An Act for carrying into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of Chile for the abolition of the traffic in slaves.	The whole Act.
6 & 7 Vict. c. 53.	An Act for carrying into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Queen of Portugal for the suppression of the traffic in slaves.	The whole Act,
6 & 7 Vict. c. 98.	An Act for the more effectual suppression of the slave trade.	Section three.
7 & 8 Vict. c. 26.	An Act for authorizing Her Majesty to carry into immediate execution, by Orders in Council, any treaties for the suppression of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
11 & 12 Vict. c.116.	An Act for carrying into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of the Equator for the abolition of the traffic in slaves.	The whole Act.
11 & 12 Vict. c. 128.	An Act for carrying into effect the agreement between Her Majesty and the Imaum of Muscat for the more effectual suppression of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
12 & 13 Vict. c. 84.	An Act for carrying into effect engagements between Her Majesty and certain Arabian chiefs in the Persian Gulf for the more effectual suppression of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
16 & 17 Vict. c. 16.	An Act for carrying into effect the engagement between Her Majesty and Syed Syf bin Hamood, the chief of Sohar, in Arabia, for the more effectual suppression of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
16 & 17 Vict. c. 17.	An Act for carrying into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of New Granada for the suppression of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
16 & 17 Vict. c. 107.	The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853.	Section one hundred and eighty-nine.
18 & 19 Vict. c. 85.	An Act for carrying into effect the engagements between Her Majesty and certain chiefs of the Sherbro country, near Sierra Leone in Africa, for the more effectual suppression of the slave trade.	The whole Act.
25 & 26 Vict. c. 40.	African Slave Trade Treaty Act (No. 1), 1862.	The whole Act,
25 & 26 Vict. c. 90.	African Slave Trade Treaty Act (No. 2), 1862.	The whole Act,
26 & 27 Vict. c. 34.	African Slave Trade Treaty Act, 1863.	The whole Act,
32 & 33 Vict. c. 2.	The Brazilian Slave Trade Repeal Act, 1869.	The whole Act.