1863, Feb. 4.  United States Statute:  Appropriation.

To carry out the treaty with Great Britain, proclaimed July 11, 1862, $17,000. Statutes at Large, XII. 639.

1863, March 3.  Congress:  Joint Resolution.

“Joint Resolution respecting the Compensation of the Judges and so forth, under the Treaty with Great Britain and other Persons employed in the Suppression of the Slave Trade.” Statutes at Large, XII. 829.

1863, April 22.  Great Britain:  Treaty of 1862 Amended.

“Additional article to the treaty for the suppression of the African slave trade of April 7, 1862.”  Concluded February 17, 1863; ratifications exchanged at London April 1, 1863; proclaimed April 22, 1863.

Right of Search extended. U.S.  Treaties and Conventions (1889), pp. 466-7.

1863, Dec. 17.  Congress (House):  Resolution on Coastwise Slave-Trade.

Mr. Julian introduced a bill to repeal portions of the Act of March 2, 1807, relative to the coastwise slave-trade.  Read twice, and referred to Committee on the Judiciary. Congressional Globe, 38 Cong. 1 sess. p. 46.

1864, July 2.  United States Statute:  Coastwise Slave-Trade Prohibited Forever.

Sec. 9 of Appropriation Act repeals Sec.Sec. 8 and 9 of Act of 1807. Statutes at Large, XIII. 353.

1864, Dec. 7.  Great Britain:  International Proposition.

“The crime of trading in human beings has been for many years branded by the reprobation of all civilized nations.  Still the atrocious traffic subsists, and many persons flourish on the gains they have derived from that polluted source.

“Her Majesty’s government, contemplating, on the one hand, with satisfaction the unanimous abhorrence which the crime inspires, and, on the other hand, with pain and disgust the slave-trading speculations which still subist [sic], have come to the conclusion that no measure would be so effectual to put a stop to these wicked acts as the punishment of all persons who can be proved to be guilty of carrying slaves across the sea.  Her Majesty’s government, therefore, invite the government of the United States to consider whether it would not be practicable, honorable, and humane—­

“1st.  To make a general declaration, that the governments who are parties to it denounce the slave trade as piracy.

“2d.  That the aforesaid governments should propose to their legislatures to affix the penalties of piracy already existing in their laws—­provided, only, that the penalty in this case be that of death—­to all persons, being subjects or citizens of one of the contracting powers, who shall be convicted in a court which takes cognizance of piracy, of being concerned in carrying human beings across the sea for the purpose of sale, or for the purpose of serving as slaves, in any country or colony in the world.”  Signed,
                                                        “RUSSELL.”