§ MR. THOMAS BAYLEY (Derbyshire, Chesterfield)I beg to ask the Attorney General whether, in fulfilling a contract to carry a boat from Zanzibar to the lakes in the interior, the contractors being British subjects will be entitled to hire slaves, or whether the prohibition of British subjects to own slaves extends equally to the hiring of slaves for long or short periods?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir ROBERT REID,) Dumfriesstated that it was unlawful for any British subject to accept, receive, or detain against his will any person as a slave within the territories of the Sultan of Zanzibar. It was not in his province to state what was going forward in Zanzibar, but he was informed the law was not being violated.