his or their lawful Attorney or Attornies, for his or their use, a just and complete indemnification, 1st, for all costs of Suit, and for all losses and damages which the Claimant or Claimants may have actually sustained by such capture and detention, that is to say, in the case of total loss, the Claimant or Claimants shall be indemnified, 1st, for the Ship, her Tackle, Apparel, and Stores; 2ndly, for all Freight due and payable; 3dly, for the value of the Cargo of Merchandize, if any; 4thly, for the Slaves on board at the time of detention, according to the computed value of such Slaves at the place of destination, deducting therefrom the usual fair average mortality for the unexpired period of the regular voyage, deducting also for all charges and expences payable upon the sale of such Cargoes, including commission of sale when payable at such Port; and 5thly, for all other regular charges in such cases of total loss; and in all other cases not of total loss, the Claimant or Claimants shall be indembified, 1st, for all special damages and expences occasioned to the Ship by the detention, and for loss of freight when due or payable; 2dly, a demurrage, when due, according to the Schedule annexed; 3dly, a daily allowance for the subsistence of Slaves of 1 shilling or 180 reis for each person, without distinction of age or sex, for so many days as it shall appear to the Commission that the voyage has been or may be delayed by reason of such detention, as likewise, 4thly, for any deterioration of Cargo or Slaves; 5thly, for any diminution in the value of the Cargo of Slaves proceeding from an increased mortality beyond the average amount of the voyage, or from sickness occasioned by detention, this value to be ascertained by their computed price at the place of destination, as in the above case of total loss; 6thly, an allowance of 5 per centum on the amount of capital employed in the purchase and maintenance of Cargo for the period of delay occasioned by the detention; and 7thly, for all premium of insurance on additional risks; the Claimant or Claimants shall likewise be entitled to interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum on the sum awarded, until paid by the Government to which the capturing Ship belongs; the whole amount of such indemnifications being calculated in the money of the Country to which the captured Ship belongs, and to be liquidated at exchange current at the time of award, excepting the sum for the subsistence of Slaves, which shall be paid at par, as above stipulated; the 2 High Contracting Parties wishing to avoid, as much as possible, every species of fraud in the execution of the Additional Convention of this date, have agreed, that if it should be proved, in a manner evident to the conviction of the Judges of the 2 Nations, and without having recourse to the decision of a Commissioner of Arbitration, that the Captor has been led into error by a voluntary and reprehensible fault on the part of the Captain of the detained Ship, in that case only the detained Ship shall

not have the right of receiving, during the days of her detention, the demurrage stipulated by the present Article:

Schedule of demurrage or daily allowance for a Vessel of

100 tons to 120 inclusive...£5

121 ditto to 150 ditto

6

10

11

...

12

14

15 J

per diem;

and so in proportion; and it was also provided by the IXth Article of the said Regulations, that when the Proprietors of a Ship suspected of carrying on an illicit trade in Slaves, released in consequence of a Sentence of one of the mixed Commission, (or in the case as above mentioned of total loss,) shall claim indemnification for the loss of Slaves which he may have suffered, he shall in no case be entitled to claim for more than the number of Slaves which his Vessel was by the Portuguese Laws authorized to carry, which number shall always be declared in his Passport; and it was also provided by the Xth Article of the said Regulations, that the Mixed Commission established in London by the IXth Article of the said Convention herein-before recited, shall hear and determine all Claims for Portuguese Ships and Cargoes captured by British Cruizers, on account of the unlawful trading in Slaves, since the 1st of June, 1814, till the period when the Convention is to be in complete execution, awarding to them, conformably to the IXth Article of the said Convention, a just and complete compensation, upon the basis laid down in the preceding Article, either for total loss, or for losses and damages sustained by the Owners and Proprietors of the said Ships and Cargoes; and it was also provided, that the said Commission established in London shall be composed and proceed exactly upon the same basis determined in Articles I, II, and III of the Regulations herein-before recited, for the Commissions established on the Coast of Africa and the Brazils; and it was also provided by the XIth Article of the said Regulation, that it shall not be permitted to any of the Commissary Judges, nor to the Arbitrators, nor to the Secretary of any of the Mixed Commissions, to demand or receive from any one of the Parties concerned in the Sentences which they shall pronounce, any emolument, under any pretext whatsoever, for the performance of the duties which are imposed upon them by the Regulations annexed to the Convention as aforesaid; and by the IXth Article of the said Regulations, that when the Parties interested shall imagine they have cause to complain of any evident injustice on the part of the Mixed Commissions, they may represent it to their respective Governments, who reserve to themselves the right of mutual Correspondence, for

removing, when they think fit, the Individuals who may compose these Commissions: and it was also provided by the XIIIth Article of the said Regulations, that in the case of a Vessel detained unjustly under the pretence of the Stipulations of the Additional Convention of this date, and in which the Captor should neither be authorized by the tenor of the above-mentioned Convention, nor of the Instructions annexed to it, the Government to which the detained Vessel may belong, shall be entitled to demand reparation, and in such case the Government to which the Captor may belong, binds itself to cause the subject of complaint to be fully examined, and to inflict upon the Captor, if he be found to have deserved it, a punishment proportioned to the transgression which may have been committed: and it was also agreed in the XIVth Article of the said Regulations, that in the event of the death of one or more of the Commissioners, Judges, and Arbitrators composing the above-mentioned Mixed Commissions, their posts shall be supplied ad interim in the following manner; on the part of the British Government, the vacancies shall be filled successively in the Commission which shall sit within the Possessions of His Britannic Majesty, by the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor resident in that Colony, by the principal Magistrate of the Place, and by the Secretary, and in the Brazils, by the British Consul and Vice Consul resident in the City in which the Mixed Commission may be established; on the part of Portugal, the vacancies shall be supplied in the Brazils by such persons as the Captain-General of the Province shall name for that purpose; and considering the difficulty which the Portuguese Government would feel in naming fit persons to fill the posts which might become vacant in the Commission established in the British Possessions, it is agreed, that in case of the death of the PortugueseCommissioners, Judge, or Arbitrators, in those Possessions, the remaining Individuals of the above-mentioned Commission shall be equally authorized to proceed to the Judgment of such Slave Ships as may be brought before them, and to the execution of their Sentence; in this case alone, however, the Parties interested shall have the right of appealing from the Sentence, if they think fit, to the Commission resident in the Brazils; and the Government to which the Captor shall belong shall be bound fully to defray the indemnification which shall be due to them, if the Appeal be judged in favor of the Claimants, it being well understood that the Ship and Cargo shall remain during this Appeal in the place of residence of the first Commission before whom she may have been conducted; and it was in the said Regulation agreed to supply, as soon as possible, every vacancy that may arise in the above-mentioned Commissions from death or any other contingency; and in case that the vacancy of each of the Portuguese Commissioners residing in the British Possessions be not supplied at the end of 6 months, the Vessels which are taken there to be

judged, after the expiration of that time, shall no longer have the right of appeal herein-before stipulated: and it was also further provided and declared and agreed, in a Separate Article, that as soon as the total Abolition of the Slave trade for the Subjects of the Crown of Portugal shall have taken place, the 2 High Contracting Parties, by common consent, will adapt to that state of circumstances the Stipulations of the said Additional Convention of the 28th July hereinbefore recited; but in default of such alterations, that the said Additional Convention shall remain in force until the expiration of 15 years from the day on which the general Abolition of the Slave trade shall so take place on the part of the Portuguese Government; and that the said Separate Article shall have the same force and validity as if it were inserted word for word in the said Additional Convention herein-before mentioned as aforesaid: And whereas it is expedient and necessary that effectual provision should be made for carrying into execution the provisions of the said Treaty; be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that it shall be lawful for any Officers commanding any Ship of War of His Majesty, duly authorized in that behalf, and provided with Instructions according to the provisions of the said Convention, to visit and detain all Ships and Vessels which shall be suspected, upon reasonable grounds, of having Slaves on board acquired by an illicit Traffic, according to the Articles of the said Convention, and to detain and bring to adjudication all Ships, Vessels, and Cargoes thereby made subject to detention and condemnation, according to the provisions of the said Convention, and the Instructions and Regulations aforesaid.

II. And be it further enacted, that all Ships and Vessels, belonging wholly or in part to His Majesty's Subjects, which shall be suspected upon reasonable grounds of having Slaves on board acquired by an illicit Traffic, shall be and are hereby declared and made, according to the said Treaty, Convention, and Regulations aforesaid, subject to the visitation of British or Portuguese Vessels of War, duly authorized for that purpose, according to the provisions before recited; and that all Ships and Vessels belonging wholly or in part to His Majesty's Subjects, which shall be found having Slaves on board acquired by an illicit Traffic, contrary to the Treaty, Convention, and Regulations so recited as aforesaid, and all Boats, Apparel, Furniture, and Slaves belonging to such Ships or Vessels, and all Cargoes therein, shall be and are hereby declared to be and made subject to the visit and detention of British or Portuguese Vessels of War duly authorized for that purpose, according to the Stipulations of the said Convention, and to forfeiture according to the provisions of the said Convention, and the

Regulations and Instructions thereunto annexed, and for that purpose shall be and are hereby made subject to the adjudication of, and to Condemnation or other Judgment by the Commissary Judges and Commissioners to be appointed according to the provisions of the said Convention, and to the Instructions and Regulations annexed thereto, recited as aforesaid.

III. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by any Warrant under his Royal Sign Manual, countersigned by one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, to appoint such Commissary Judges and Commissioners of Arbitration as are in and by the said Convention, and Regulations thereto annexed, mentioned to be appointed by His Majesty, and from time to time to supply any vacancies which may arise in such Offices, by appointing other Persons thereto; and to grant salaries to such Commissary Judges and Commissioners of Arbitration as aforesaid, not exceeding such annual Sums as the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of Great Britain and Ireland shall from time to time direct; and such Commissary Judges and Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to examine and decide all such Cases of Detention, Captures, and Seizures of Vessels and their Cargoes as aforesaid, detained, seized, taken, or captured under the said Treaty or Convention, or Instructions and Regulations, as are by the said Treaty, Convention, Instructions, and Regulations, and by this Act, made subject to their jurisdiction, and to proceed therein, and give such Judgments, and make such Orders therein, and to do all other acts, matters, and things appertaining thereto, agreeably to the provisions of the said Treaty and Convention, and the Instructions and Regulations annexed thereto and recited as aforesaid, as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if special powers and authorities were specifically and particularly inserted and given in relation thereto in this Act.

IV. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by any Warrant under his Royal Sign Manual, countersigned by one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the time being, to nominate and appoint a Secretary or Registrar to the Commission which shall be established in His Majesty's Dominions, and from time to time to supply, by other appointments, any vacancy which may thereafter occur in such Office, and to grant salaries to such Secretary or Registrar, not exceeding such annual sum as the said Lords Commissioners shall from time to time direct; and such Secretary or Registrar is hereby respectively authorized and empowered to do, perform, and execute all the duties of such Office, as set forth and described in the said Convention, Instructions, and Regulations respectively herein-before recited as aforesaid, and to do, perform, and execute all such acts, matters, and things as may be necessary for the due discharge of the duties of his office, according to