Commissioners of Enquiry into the state of the 'captured negroes' in the West Indies:...

CO 318/82

1823

Commissioners of Enquiry into the state of the 'captured negroes' in the West Indies: Tortola Schedules (enclosures in Commissioner Moody's despatch of 17 August 1823). A contents list details the schedules as follows:

• 1st. Return of African and Creole Negroes, who, not being now in Tortola, have not been examined but who were captured on board different Vessels, which have been condemned in the Court of Vice Admiralty at Tortola, for the causes there assigned, since the abolition of the slave trade on the 25th March 1807 to 6 August 1823, in the schedules lettered A & B;
• 2nd. Return of African and Creole Negroes captured on board different Vessels ... but Appeals having been made the sentences have been reversed ... in the schedules lettered C & D;
• 3rd. Return of Vessels having Negroe Slaves on board, captured since the abolition of the slave trade and prosecuted in the Court of Vice Admiralty in Tortola, but the sentences remain incomplete on the 6th August 1923, in schedule E;
• 4th. Return of African & Creole Negroes on board Vessels stated to have been prosecuted in the Court of Vice Admiralty at Tortola, since the abolition of the slave trade, but from the Records of the Court it does not appear that such Negroe Slaves were condemned to His Majesty for the purposes of the Act 47 Geo 3 Cap 36, in schedules lettered E [sic], F & G;
• 5th. Return of African Slaves wrecked within the Government of Tortola since the abolition of the slave trade, in schedule H;
• 6th. Return of the State and Condition of the Africans captured on board the American Schooner Nancy, in schedules lettered from I to L;
• 7th. Return of the State and Condition of the Africans captured on board the American Brig Amedie, in schedules lettered from M to P;
• 8th. Return of the State and Condition of the Africans captured on board the English Schooner Anthony in Schedules lettered Q & R;
• 9th. Return of the State and Condition of the Africans captured on board the Spanish Ship Manuella, in schedules lettered from S to HH;
• 10th. Return of the State and Condition of the Africans captured on board the Spanish Ship Venus, in the schedules lettered from I to WW;
• 11th. Return of the State and Condition of the Africans captured on board the Spanish Schooner Candelaria, in the schedules lettered from YY to LLL;
• 12th. Return of the State and Condition of the Africans captured on board the Spanish Ship Atrevido, in the schedules lettered from MMM to JJJJ;
• 13th. Return of the State and Condition of certain African and Creole Negroes, seized by the officers of His Majesty's Customs, and condemned in the Court of Vice Admiralty at Tortola, in schedules lettered from KKKK to LLLL;
• 14th. Supplementary Remarks Schedules connected with judicial proceedings, in schedules lettered MMMM & NNNN & OOOO;
• 15th. Answers to Enquiries, by persons filling public situations in Tortola, & who have not any African Apprentices in their employment, in schedules lettered PPPP & QQQQ.

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