Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 108 of 1846, dated 29 September 1846. The enclosures are dated 28 August-24 September 1846.The papers comprise a report by Captain Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and Honourable Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imaum [Imaum] of Muscat, based in Zanzibar, to the Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay, and Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf. Hamerton reports the Imaum’s ‘intimation to his Officers at his ports on the Coast of Africa and other places within his Dominions, and to the chiefs in the Persian Gulf in conformity with the provision of the Treaty concluded between His Highness and the British Government on 2nd October 1845, for suppressing the exportation of slaves from His Highness’ African possessions’. Also included are letters from the Secretary to the Government, Bombay, forwarding the news to the Government of India and expressing the approbation of the Government of Bombay.Physical description: 1 item (11 folios)