The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-17 00:00:00

BRA ZILS.

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On the 17th of July,-- the Chamber of Deputies
passed in secret session to the third reading of the law
for the suppression of the slave trade. The following
are the most important provisions of the law as it was
ultimately voted :
Art. B. All Brazilian vessels wheresoever found, and
all foreign vessels found in Brazilian ports, waterings,
or anchorages, or the sras appertaining to Brazil, with
slaves on board, the importation of whom is prohibited
by the law of 7th November, 1831, or which shstll have
landed such slaves, will be seized by the Brazilian autho-
rities or ships of war, and deemed to be importers of
slaves. Such vessels as neither have slaves on board nor
have recently landed them, if they appear to be fitted up
for the purposes of the slave trade, will be apprehended
in like manner and held to be engaged in the attempt to
import slaves.
Art. 4. The Imperial Government will issue regula-
tions declaring what appearances are to be deemed pre-
sumptions that a vessel is destined to be engaged in the
slave trade.

Art. 5. The conclusion of this article is to the follow-
ing effect:—Parties who assist in the disembarkation of
slaves, or who aid in concealing them within the Brazi-
lian territory, or assist in resisting attempts to capture
them at sea, or when being landed, will be held to be
accomplices.
Art. 6. The importation cf slaves into the imperial
territory will be held to be piracy, and will be:punished
by the tribunals by the penalties declared in the 2d
article of the law of Nov. 7, 1831. Attempts to import
and complicity will be punished as prescribed in the
34th and 35th articles of the criminal code.

Att. 8. [The first part of this article] declares vessels
described in the third and fourth articles, and all vessels
employed in landing, hiding, or carrying away slaves,
rill be sold with everything on board, and the proceeds
awarded, deducting a fourth part to reward the infor-
mant of any, to meet the expenses of government, &c.
Art. 9. All slaves who shall be taken in such vessels
are to be re-exported at the charge of the Gov( rnment
to the ports whence they were brought, or the most con-
venient port beyond sea; and in so tar as this re-exporta-
tion is under the superintendence of Government their
services shall not be conceded to private individetals.
Art. 11. All proceedings against the vessels de scribed
in articles three and four, as well as for establishing the
liberty of the slaves captured at sea or on shore, or in
the act of disembarkation, are to be instituted,. in the
first instance, in the auditoria de marinha, and in the
second before the council of state. The Government
will issue regulations determining the forms of process
to be observed, and may establish a new audWrria de
marinha in any part where it may seem advisable, ap-
pointing to it the judges of the comarea in which the
part is situated.
Art. 12. The auditores de marinha will be competent
to exercise jurisdiction in the case of the parties desig-
nated in Article 5 ; and the same court of appeal will
be open to these parties. All parties liable to the provi-
sions of the law of the 7th of November, and not in-
cluded in Article 5 of this law, are to be prosecuted be-
fore the ordinary tribun'al9.