SLAVE TRADE.
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The following is a late decree of the King Of
France against the Slave Trade:


"Charles, by the grace of God, King of France
and Navarro, to all who shall see these presents,
greeting.


We have ordained, and do orslain, that the
project of 2 law of the following tenor shall be
presented by our Minister Secretary of State to
the Department Of Marine and the Colonies,
whom We charge to explain its object and to sup
port 1t IN discussion,


Only .4rtscie.--In case Of . cooperation or par
tcipaton, by any means whatever in the traffic
known under the name ofthe negro slave trade,
the propretors, AM supercargocs; the insurers
who ensure it knowingly, the captain or comrnail-
der and other officers ofthe vessel; shall be pun
ishcd with banishnent, and fine equal to the
value OF the ship and cargo.


The finc shall be pronounced conjoin,ly against
the individuals designated in the preceding par
agraph.


The captain and officers shall be further de-
clared incapable Of serving, under any title in
the kiny's navy or The French merchant service.
Other individuals belonging to the crew shall
be punished with imprisonment from months
TO pears. From these are expected, such of
the above mentioned individuals as SHALL within
fifteen days after the vessels arrival, declare to
the commissary of marine, or the magistrates in
the French ports or the French consuls in for
eign ports, the facts which they shall know.


The vessel shall be seized and confiscatsd.


The penalties under the present law are indie
pendent of those which shall be pronounced, in
conformity with the penal code, for other crimes
or offences which may have been committed OH
board the slip.


The law of april Is, 1913, is abrogated


Given in our palace of the Iuileries, Dec. 27
1926; and, of our reign the third.