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Zealand, or any other island in the South Pacific, unless 
the Master, if of British or Indian, or the Master and 
Owners, if of Plantation registry, shall enter into bonds 
with the Naval Officer, under £1000 penalty, that them¬ 
selves and crew shall properly demean themselves towards 
the natives; and not commit acts of trespass on their 
gardens, lands, habitations, burial grounds, tombs, or 
properties, and not make war, or at all interfere in their 
quarrels, or excite any animosities among them, but 
leave them to the free enjoyment of their rites and cere¬ 
monies ; and not take from the islands any male native, 
without his own and his chief’s and parents’ consent; 
and shall not take from thence any female native, without 
the like consent—or, in case of shipping any male natives, 
as mariners, divers, &c. then, at their own request at any 
time, to discharge them, first paying them all wages, 
&c. And, the natives of all the said islands being under 
His Majesty’s protection, all acts of rapine, plunder, 
piracy, murders, or other outrages against their persons 
or property, will, upon conviction, be severely punished.” 
In reference to another Order resembling this, 
and issued November 19, 1814, it is declared, 
that— 
“ Any neglect or disobedience of these Orders, will 
subject the offenders to be proceeded against with the 
utmost rigour of the law, on their return thither, (viz. 
New r South Wales;) and, those who shall return to Eng¬ 
land, without first resorting to this place, will be reported 
to His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, and 
such documents transmitted, as will warrant their being 
equally proceeded against and punished.” 
Although the justice and humanity of the gover¬ 
nor of New South Wales were so distinctly mani¬ 
fested in the foregoing Orders, these regulations 
were found insufficient to prevent outrage upon 
the natives, from the masters and crews of vessels 
visiting the islands: an act was therefore passed 
in the British parliament, in the month of June, 
1817, entitled, “ An Act of the 57th of the King* 
