ALOISIO , Adjutant to To the very illustrious Mr. R. Bonello , Superintendent of Police, April 17, 1872

Most Illustrious Sir: I have the honor to inform you that yesterday at about 10 p.m. the Ottoman steamer Trabulus Garb, Captain V. Azzopardi, arrived in this port from Tripoli, and had among her passengers three slave women, accompanied by their masters, described in the list of passengers as their wives, to whom I said distinctly that in the British dominions they enjoyed the privilege of emancipation.

Zatima, of about 18 years of age, belonging to Musa bin Ahmed, asked to be emancipated. She was delivered from slavery, and sent back to Tripoli. The other two refused to be emancipated, and continued their journey to Constantinople.

I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient servant,