Records Relating to the Gold Coast Settlements from 1750 to 1874 by Major J.J. Crooks

Author:Major J.J. Crooks [Crooks, Major J.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General
ISBN: 9781136960772
Google: FY9HAQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-08T15:58:30+00:00

(3rd). The pay of the soldiers to be fixed at 12s. 6d. a month for each private; the militia to be dispensed with, and the number of established troops to be increased in proportion to the number of militia men dispensed with.

(4th). The pay of the soldiers, and the salaries of all officers to be paid in money and not in goods.

(5th). To obviate any doubt of the strict meaning of the Act of Abolition of 1834, and the Consolidated Slave Trade Act of 1824, by the enactment of a new law to prevent British subjects in any settlements abroad, British or foreign, from holding, hiring, buying, or selling slaves, or pawns; from suffering vessels equipped for the slave trade to anchor in these parts, to be supplied with provisions or merchandize; from selling goods at foreign slave trade factories to notorious slave dealers; from owning, insuring, or chartering vessels employed in this trade, or the conveyance to the slave trade factories of the coast of the stores and merchandize essential to it; from forming companies, or holding shares in companies whose profits is derived in foreign countries, or in any British settlements, from the employment of slaves; from lending money on interest, on discounting bills of persons notoriously engaged in slave trading; from delivering up slaves who have taken refuge in British settlements on any pretext of crime; from suffering foreigners in British Settlements to hold slaves without bringing the offenders to justice, or informing the slaves by public proclamation of their being unjustly held in bonds.

(6th). To inform the natives on the Gold Coast of the precise extent of our jurisdiction and the limits of our territorial rights and claims, and to allow no law repugnant to English law to be in force in our settlements, and no practice contrary to it to be carried on.

(7th). To reoccupy, and in some instances to reconstruct the abandoned forts or blockhouses at Winnebah, Whydah, Apollonia, and to establish one at the river Bonny.

(8th). To enlarge the gaol so as to admit of the classification of prisoners.

(9th). To establish a normal school in England for the instruction of natives destined to become masters of colonial schools.

(10th). To provide a colonial schooner for the service of the local government, and the prevention of slave trading in the neighbouring districts.

(11th). To impose a duty of five per cent, on all imports in foreign vessels at our settlements on the Gold Coast.

I have suggested the enactment of a new law for the prevention of slavery and the slave trade, for the purpose especially of removing every pretext for the former, which may be made on the grounds of any of our settlements being left unnamed in the Emancipation Act, futile as that pretext must be when the particular places which are exempted from its operation are specially named in the Act; and all colonies and settlements in Great Britain, whether particularized or not, must be, of course, subjected to its general obligations.

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