Mixed Commission Court
A Mixed Commission Court was a joint court set up by the English government with either Spanish or Portuguese representation following treaties agreed in 1817.
By 1820 there were 6 courts:[1]
- Anglo-Portuguese court in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Anglo-Spanish court in Havana, Cuba
- Anglo-Dutch court in Surinam
- Anglo-Portuguese, Anglo-Spanish and Anglo-Dutch courts in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Free Town
The Courts in Free Town were located in a building previously used to house the Governor located in Gloucester Street.[2]
References
- ↑ Adderley, Rosanne Marion (2006). "New negroes from Africa" slave trade abolition and free African settlement in the nineteenth-century Caribbean. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-21827-8.
- ↑ Shreeve, Whittaker (18 June 1847). "African Trade, the Horrors of Slave Trade Aiding, Abetting etc.". The South Australian: 4. Retrieved 6 September 2014.