Zanzibar Indemnity Act 1894
WHEREAS there are now standing in the name of His Highness Seyyid Ali bin Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Zanzibar, in the books of the Bank of England the sum of two hundred and four thousand nine hundred and eleven pounds six shillings and ninepence Consolidated Bank Annuities, and certain sums of cash representing dividends thereon: And whereas the said Sultan is dead, and difficulties have arisen as to the mode in which the said sum of Bank Annuities shall be transferred and as to the receipt ...