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C. 113, and the other Imperial Acts for the Suppression of the Slave Trade - and

as

dearly that Krook a Sing - the subject

of the Telegram

in §

was under the definition

§ 2 of 6 and of Vic. O 98, and under the scope of the Acts a "Ilave" within their

meaning.

It may

be contended that these

Acts do not excland to China - a reference

to Ordinance N. 1 of 1844 shows that the character of Slavery

serion was

20

here that the first Ordinance passed in "the Legislative Comil was " to define

the Laws relating to Slavery" had. That Ordinance

24

th

proclaimed on the

of January 1818 to be disallowed, buit by another proclamation of the same