VI. Bureau For The Repression Of The Slave Trade On The African Coast
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VI. Bureau For The Repression Of The Slave Trade On The African Coast
This bureau was instituted in the execution of the General Act of the Conference of Brussels of the 2d of July, 1890, and attached to the Department for Foreign Affairs of Belgium.
Article 81
The Powers will communicate to the greatest extent possible and with the least possible delay:
1. The text of the existing laws and administrative regulations or edicts for the application of the clauses of the present General Act.
2. Statistical information concerning the slave trade; slaves taken and freed; the traffic in arms and ammunition, and also in spirits.
Article 82
The exchange of these documents and circulars will be centralized in a special bureau attached to the Department of Foreign Affairs at Brussels.
Article 84
The documents and circulars shall be collected and periodically published, and forwarded to all the signatory powers.
Article 85
The expenses of running the bureau, of correspondence, of translation and printing, shall be met by all the signatory powers, and recovered by the Department of Foreign Affairs at Brussels.
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