Folio. [3], 40-48pp, [2]. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Sewn, as issued. Three old horizontal folds. A clean and crisp copy.

A selection of five papers relating to the prevention of the trafficking of enslaved Africans; three of which commissioning British judges, secretaries, and registrars to be appointed to stations in London and Sierra Leone in order to oversee the execution of recent treaties with Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands for the abolition of the slave trade, and in particular providing authorisation for said officials to rule on cases relating to the detention of vessels suspected of illicitly conveying slaves and grant, where deemed appropriate, compensation for lost revenue.